Pierre Bayle and Richard Simon: toleration, natural law, and the Old Testament
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) developed an expansive theory of toleration in his Commentaire philosophique (1686) by arguing that tolerance is a universal principle of natural law. However, by situating toleration in natural law rather than positive law, Bayle was brought into theoretical conflict with t...
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Routledge
2021
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