Author: Ruth Elizabeth Cowdrick
Publisher:
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Category : Books and reading
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Elisabeth Labrousse
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940095087X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Todd Ryan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135988005
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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This book offers a series of detailed studies of Bayle’s engagement with such crucial metaphysical issues as mind-body dualism, causation, and God’s relation to the world. It is argued that despite his reputation as a skeptic, Bayle is deeply influenced by the metaphysical systems of Descartes, and especially Nicolas Malebranche.

Author: Craig B. Brush
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401196761
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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It is traditional in the literature on Pierre Bayle to make some refer ene e to iVlontaigne as one of the masters of skepticism in whose tracks he follows, albeit hardly so eloselyas Charron had. Time and again critics feel the need to mention Montaigne and Bayle in the same context, sometimes to contrast their brands of Pyrrhonism, more often to explain similarities in their ideas and methods, which have frequent ly been regarded as important steps in the gradual evolution of un Christian, even anti-Christian, thought. Their names were already associated during Bayle's life, for example, in the mediocre work by Dom Alexis Gaudin, La Distinction et la Nature du Bien et du MaI, Traite ou l'on combat l'erreur des Manicheens, les sentimens de Jvfontaigne & de Charron, & ceux de J. Vfonsieur Bayle. In the nineteen th century, the author of the Dictionnaire historique et critique wa~ generally elassified as a skeptic; and his name was inevi tably linked with the essayist's. In his Port-Royal, Sainte-Beuve pictured Bayle as one of the avowed skeptics in Montaigne's funeral cortege and spoke of both men as "d'autant pIus fourbes qu'ils ne le sont pas toujours." His later works show that he revised his opinion on each somewhat, l but in this he was unusual for his century.

Author: Jean Gedeon Nicholas
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

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Author: Elisabeth Israels Perry
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401020094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Author: Lenie van Lieshout
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Joy Charnley
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210

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Author: Walter Rex
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 940103561X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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The solitary and erudite figure of Pierre Bayle occupies a position of particular interest in French letters; we are pleased to recognize in his thought the germ of the ideas which reached their fulfillment in the eighteenth century. His own age does not seem to have been quite ready to receive him. Forced into exile by the Catholics, he was censured and harassed by the Protestants in Holland. It is to be expected that his outspoken enemies would have declared him a danger to religion and morality; yet to his more moderate contemporaries, too, he was sometimes a "problem," and one senses an occasional reserve toward him even in his remaining friends. As for the general public, the Nouvelles de la Republique des lettres may indeed have received the "universal applause" Des Maizeaux said it had, yet there was voluminous criticism also. His marvelous Dictionary, which probably achieved the widest circulation of any of his works during his lifetime, also elicited the most attack, censure and discontent. Moreover, though Bayle had earned fame, he did not have in the eyes of his contemporaries particularly of those in France - the importance which he has for us today. Other figures seemed still grander than he in the closing decades of the seventeenth century: in philosophy and metaphysics, the e normous system of Malebranche, the last significant attempt in France to establish a synthesis of Christianity and reason, attracted far more admiration, or criticism, than Bayle.

Author: Karl C. Sandberg
Publisher:
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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