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 |
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
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 |
"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
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
Title | Historical and Critical Dictionary PDF eBook |
Author | Pierre Bayle |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 496 |
Release | 1991-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780872201033 |
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
Title | Aquinas: Political Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Saint Thomas (Aquinas) |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 2002-10-24 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521375955 |
A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225-74).
Political Writings
Title | Political Writings PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Paine |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political science |
ISBN | 9780521667999 |
Recoge:Common Sense; Rights of Man; The age of Reason; Agrarian justice.
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