Spinoza sinicus: an Asian paragraph in the history of the radical enlightenment.

From: Journal of the History of Ideas | Date: October 1, 2007| Author: Weststeijn, Thijs | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION: BAYLE AND SPINOZA, VOSSIUS AND HORNIUS

In the entry "Japan" to Pierre Bayle's Dictionaire historique et critique (Rotterdam, 1702), an unexpected mention is made of a western philosopher: Spinoza. The lemma describes the forms of government and religion of the Japanese isles and epitomizes a branch of their religion: 

 
   those that seek internal and insensible reality, they reject 
   paradise and hell, and teach things that are very similar to t...

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