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Reading Bayle /

Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) is a key intellectual figure of the period, and his Historical and Critical Dictionary is the philosophy best seller of all time. This work is a critical but sympathetic treatment of a neglected thinker of interest in the fields of the history of modern philosophy, the histo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lennon, Thomas M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Bayle: His Life and Works
  • God and Man
  • Integrity
  • The Death of Moliere
  • The Bayle Enigma
  • The Leibnizian Fallacy
  • History, Narrative, and Fiction
  • Polyphony
  • Dialogue and Monologue
  • Authority
  • Bayle and Arnauld
  • Jansenism and Scepticism
  • The Elusive Distinction between Fait and Droit
  • Arnauld's Response to Bayle
  • A Philosophical Account of the Distinction
  • Nestorianism, Calvinism, and Jansenism
  • Rationalism and Irrationalism
  • Toleration
  • Mistaken Identity
  • Context and Kinds of Argument
  • Jurieu's Condemnation of the Erring Conscience
  • Bayle's Reply to Jurieu
  • Heresy and the Exercise of Authority
  • Idolatry
  • The Problem of Idolatry
  • Transubstantiation
  • Jurieu and Bossuet
  • Protestant Responses to a Catholic Convert
  • Bayle and the Divine Dialogue
  • Providence
  • Lotteries
  • The Legitimization of Gambling
  • Miracles and Mechanisms
  • Grace and Chance
  • Religion, Morality, and Chance
  • Fatalism, Chance, and Creation.