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    Pierre Bayle (French: [bɛl]; 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical...
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  • music George A. Bayle Jr., first to market peanut butter Jean-Michel Bayle, a French motorcycle racer Pierre Bayle, a philosopher Bayle Mountain in New...
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    Carla-Bayle is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. It was the birthplace of Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), a Protestant philosopher...
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    accused of atheism for his writings on the "natural history of religion"; Pierre Bayle was accused of atheism for defending the possibility of an ethical atheist...
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    Critical Dictionary) was a French biographical dictionary written by Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), a Huguenot philosopher who lived and published in Rotterdam...
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  • the theological knowledge-claims and the rational knowledge-claims. Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher in the late 17th century that was described...
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    early 18th century, when Pierre Bayle launched the popular and scholarly Enlightenment critique of religion. As a skeptic Bayle only partially accepted...
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  • Calvinist theologian named Pierre Viret, but Deism was generally unknown in the Kingdom of France until the 1690s when Pierre Bayle published his famous Dictionnaire...
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  • Moyse Antoine Pierre Jean Bayle (16 July 1755, in Chêne – between 1812 and 1815) was a French politician of the French Revolution. Bayle was member of...
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  • titles of several important journals. Currently, the consensus is that Pierre Bayle first translated the term in his journal Nouvelles de la République des...
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  • writer exiled in London, best known as the translator and biographer of Pierre Bayle. He was born in Pailhat, Auvergne, France. His father, a minister of...
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    (1697), Pierre Bayle had argued that there is no defensible rational solution to the problem of why God permits evil. More specifically, Bayle had argued...
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    matters. The bitterness and persistency of his attacks on his colleague Pierre Bayle led to the latter being deprived of his chair in 1693. One of Jurieu's...
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    between all churches holding the main doctrines of the Reformation. Pierre Bayle recounts the title-pages of no fewer than thirty-two books of which Amyraut...
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    became a common theme for many well-known Enlightenment philosophers. Pierre Bayle, a deist, criticized the biblical figures from the Old Testament and...
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    Leibniz's Théodicée was a response to skeptical Protestant philosopher Pierre Bayle, who wrote in his work Dictionnaire Historique et Critique that, after...
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    of innovation or originality. The most influential intellectual was Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), a Protestant refugee from France who settled in Rotterdam...
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  • Thucydides, Peloponesian War 2.2.1 Pausanias, Description of Greece 3.5.6 Pierre Bayle, Historisches und kritisches Wörterbuch, transl. and ed. by G. Gawlick...
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    Nes (1626–1693), naval officer Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), painter Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), theologian and philosopher Grinling Gibbons (1648–1721)...
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  • theory of gravity, which, along with the contributions of John Locke, Pierre Bayle, Baruch Spinoza, and others, fueled the Enlightenment. The 18th century...
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    Arnauld and the Port-Royal, Nicolas Malebranche, Pierre Gassendi, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere, and Pierre Bayle. 17th-century French literature 17th-century...
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    Locke, Edward Gibbon, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Denis Diderot, Pierre Bayle and Isaac Newton. This movement is influenced by the scientific revolution...
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    wife's share in a small porcelain factory. In two works of this period, Pierre Bayle (1838) and Philosophie und Christentum (1839), which deal largely with...
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  • and in large part written by Pierre Bayle. It began publication in 1684, and is the first known book review journal. Bayle edited it from March 1684 through...
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    century philosophers on the European continent like Baruch Spinoza and Pierre Bayle developed ideas encompassing a more universal aspect freedom of speech...
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    and French thinkers, including Isaac Newton, John Locke, Voltaire, and Pierre Bayle. In Great Britain and North America, Socinianism later became a catch-all...
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  • herald of the secular age. In his Historical and Critical Dictionary, Pierre Bayle called Spinoza "the greatest atheist". Jewish thinkers of the 19th century...
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  • Charles Batteux Jean C. Baudet Jean Baudrillard Louis Eugène Marie Bautain Pierre Bayle Jean Beaufret Émile Beaussire Simone de Beauvoir Gustave Belot Julien...
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  • and analyzing the "Historical and Critical Dictionary " by Protestant Pierre Bayle, from which the principle of toleration, embodied during all her reign...
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    provoking a ferocious response from Pierre Jurieu (1683) and a calm demolition of his historical method by Pierre Bayle in his Critique général de l’histoire...
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