Essays on Pierre Bayle and Religious Controversy

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1965
ISBN: 978-94-010-3563-7
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 271 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 446 g

Reihe: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rex, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

I The Theological Traditions of the Pensees Diverses Sur La Comete (1682).- 1 Antiquity.- 2 Antiquity: Pensèes diverses sur la comète.- II Sources of the Commentaire Philosophique (1686).- 3 Calvinist Rationalism in France.- 4 The Eucharist: Geneva, Sedan, and Rotterdam.- 5 The Structure of the Commentaire philosophique.- III The Theological and Political Crisis of the Huguenots in Exile.- 6 Bayle’s Article on David.