Pierre Bayle (1647-1706). (Great Minds).(Biography)

Free Inquiry | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

Pierre Bayle was one of the most famous and thoroughgoing skeptics of his day This fact is difficult to reconcile with his professed Calvinism, the sincerity of which is anybody's guess. Some commentators maintain that it was completely genuine. Frederick the Great and Voltaire thought that it was a cover so that Bayle could live and write in peace. Simon Blackburn, in the Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, takes the same view, quoting Bayle's remark, "I am most truly a Protestant; for I protest indifferently against all systems and all sects." In any event it is his ...

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