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Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle (French: [bɛl]; 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706)[3] was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697.[3] Many of the more controversial ideas in the book were hidden away in the voluminous footnotes, or they were slipped into articles on seemingly uncontroversial topics. Bayle is commonly regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopédistes of the mid-18th century. He, like many other European philosophers of his era, was influenced by the writings of the Muslim philosopher Ibn Tufayl.[4]

Pierre Bayle

(1647-11-18)18 November 1647

Carla-le-Comte, Kingdom of France

28 December 1706(1706-12-28) (aged 59)

Rotterdam, Dutch Republic

17th-century philosophy

Western philosophy

Philosophical skepticism

Epistemology

Bayle's skeptical trilemma[1][2]

A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic in 1681 because of religious persecution in France. Bayle was a notable advocate of religious toleration, and his skeptical philosophy had a significant influence on the subsequent growth and development of the European Age of Enlightenment. Leibniz's theodicy was formed in response to Bayle.

In 1906 a statue in his honor was erected at , la reparation d'un long oubli ("the reparation of a long neglect").

Pamiers

In 1959 a street was named after him in .

Rotterdam

In 2012 a bench (By Paul Cox) in tribute to Bayle, to reflect on the (hypothetical) philosophical exchange of thought between Bayle and Erasmus. (concept of thought: JW van den Blink)

Pensées Diverses sur l'Occasion de la Comète, (1682) translated as Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet (2000) by Robert C. Bartlett, SUNY Press.

(1695–1697; 1702, enlarged; best that of P. des Maizeaux, 4 vols., 1740)

Dictionnaire Historique et Critique

Œuvres diverses, 5 vols., The Hague, 1727–31; anastatic reprint: Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1964–68.

Selections in English: Pierre Bayle (Richard H. Popkin transl.), Historical and Critical Dictionary – Selections, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991.  978-0-87220-103-3.

ISBN

Elisabeth Labrousse

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the : Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bayle, Pierre". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 557.

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Works by or about Pierre Bayle

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Works by Pierre Bayle

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Dictionnaire Historique et Critique

The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge

Contains the exchanges between Bayle and Leibniz, slightly modified for easier reading

in EMLO

The Correspondence of Pierre Bayle

The Influence of Foreign Knowledge on 18th Century European Secularism - Brill, Heiner Roetz