Reading Bayle
By: Thomas M. Lennon
Series: Toronto studies in philosophy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780802044884; 9780802082664
Description: 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 history of ideas, and 17th century French culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bayle: His Life and Works --; title: God and Man --; title: Integrity --; title: The Death of Moliere --; title: The Bayle Enigma --; title: The Leibnizian Fallacy --; title: History, Narrative, and Fiction --; title: Polyphony --; title: Dialogue and Monologue --; title: Authority --; title: Bayle and Arnauld --; title: Jansenism and Scepticism --; title: The Elusive Distinction between Fait and Droit --; title: Arnauld's Response to Bayle --; title: A Philosophical Account of the Distinction --; title: Nestorianism, Calvinism, and Jansenism --; title: Rationalism and Irrationalism --; title: Toleration --; title: Mistaken Identity --; title: Context and Kinds of Argument --; title: Jurieu's Condemnation of the Erring Conscience --; title: Bayle's Reply to Jurieu --; title: Heresy and the Exercise of Authority --; title: Idolatry --; title: The Problem of Idolatry --; title: Transubstantiation --; title: Jurieu and Bossuet --; title: Protestant Responses to a Catholic Convert --; title: Bayle and the Divine Dialogue --; title: Providence --; title: Lotteries --; title: The Legitimization of Gambling --; title: Miracles and Mechanisms --; title: Grace and Chance --; title: Religion, Morality, and Chance --; title: Fatalism, Chance, and Creation.