Bayle: Political Writings

Bayle: Political Writings
Title Bayle: Political Writings PDF eBook
Author Pierre Bayle
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 444
Release 2000-08-03
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780521476775

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Pierre Bayle was one of the most important sceptical thinkers of the seventeenth century. His work was a major influence on the development of the ideas of Voltaire (who acclaimed it for its candour on such subjects as atheism, obscenity and sexual conduct), Hume, Montesquieu and Rousseau. Banned in France on first publication in 1697, Bayle's Dictionnaire Historique et Critique became a bestseller and ran into several editions and translations. Sally L. Jenkinson's masterly edition presents the reader with a coherent path through Bayle's monumental work (which ran to seven million words). This is volume selects political writings from Bayle's work and presents its author as a specifically political thinker. Sally L. Jenkinson's authoritative translation, careful selection of texts, and lucid introduction will be welcomed by scholars and students of the history of ideas, political theory, cultural history and French studies.

Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet

Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet
Title Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet PDF eBook
Author Pierre Bayle
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 388
Release 2000-05-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0791492737

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"I tremble when I recall the terrible appearance [the comet] had on Saturday evening in the clear sky, when it was observed by everybody with inexpressible astonishment. It seemed as though the heavens were burning, or as if the very air was on fire...[F]rom this little star stretched out such a wonderfully long tail that even an intellectual man was overcome with trembling; one's hair stood on end as this uncommon, terrible, and indescribable tail came into view...O wonderful almighty God! The heavens show thy might and the earth thy handiwork!" — Eyewitness account of a comet which appeared over Europe on December 24, 1680 The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print—the only other version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the history of the modern Enlightenment.

A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23

A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23
Title A Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the Gospel, Luke 14.23 PDF eBook
Author Pierre Bayle
Publisher Natural Law and Enlightenment
Pages 720
Release 2005
Genre Philosophy
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"The topics of church and state, religious toleration, the legal enforcement of religious practices, and religiously motivated violence on the part of individuals, have once again become burning issues. Pierre Bayle's Philosophical Commentary was a major attempt to deal with very similar problems three centuries ago. His argument is that if the orthodox have the right and duty to persecute, then every sect will persecute since every sect considers itself orthodox. The result will be mutual slaughter, something God cannot have intended." "Bayle has often been seen as a skeptic who blazed a philosophical path that Denis Diderot, David Hume, and other Enlightenment thinkers would follow. But his was a philosophical skepticism that did not exclude the possibility of religious faith, and Bayle himself was a Calvinist Christian." "Bayle's book was translated into English in 1708. The Liberty Fund edition reprints that translation, carefully checked against the French and corrected, with an introduction and annotations designed to make Bayle's arguments accessible to the twenty-first-century reader." --Book Jacket.

Historical and Critical Dictionary

Historical and Critical Dictionary
Title Historical and Critical Dictionary PDF eBook
Author Pierre Bayle
Publisher Hackett Publishing
Pages 496
Release 1991-01-01
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780872201033

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Richard Popkin's meticulous translation--the most complete since the eighteenth century--contains selections from thirty-nine articles, as well as from Bayle's four Clarifications. The bulk of the major articles of philosophical and theological interest--those that influenced Leibniz, Berkeley, Hume, and Voltaire and formed the basis for so many eighteenth-century discussions--are present, including David, Manicheans, Paulicians, Pyrrho, Rorarius, Simonides, Spinoza, and Zeno of Elea.

Aquinas: Political Writings

Aquinas: Political Writings
Title Aquinas: Political Writings PDF eBook
Author Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 364
Release 2002-10-24
Genre History
ISBN 9780521375955

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A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225-74).

Political Writings

Political Writings
Title Political Writings PDF eBook
Author Thomas Paine
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 388
Release 2000
Genre Political science
ISBN 9780521667999

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Recoge:Common Sense; Rights of Man; The age of Reason; Agrarian justice.

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