Pierre Bayle
Philosopher, Author
1647 – 1706
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Who was Pierre Bayle?
Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695.
Bayle was a self-pronounced Protestant, and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason, on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment.
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1647
Carla-Bayle - Nationality
- France
- Profession
- Lived in
- Ariège
- Rotterdam
- Died
- Dec 28, 1706
Rotterdam
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on July 23, 2013
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