Bayle, Pierre(1647–1706)
Pierre Bayle, the most important and most influential skeptic of the late seventeenth century, was born in Carla (now Carla-Bayle), a French village near the Spanish fr...
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The French philosopher and skeptic Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was the author of the Historical and Critical Dictionary. This unique philosophy source book was one of the most influential works during th...
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Pierre Bayle plays a singularly important role as a precursor of the philosophes (deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment). Many of his ideas, as set forth in the Dictionair...
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