Pierre Bayle dialogues of Maximus and Themistius / translated, edited, and introduced by Michael W. Hickson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayle, Pierre, 1647-1706, author.

Contributor:

Hickson, Michael W., translator, editor, writer of introduction.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 256.

Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's texts and sources in intellectual history ; Volume 18.

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 0920-8607 ; Volume 256

Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History ; Volume 18

Standardized Title:

Entretiens de Maxime et de Themiste ou reponse a l'examen de la théologie de Mr. Bayle. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calvinism--Early works to 1800.

Calvinism.

Theodicy--Early works to 1800.

Theodicy.

Good and evil--Early works to 1800.

Good and evil.

Le Clerc, Jean, 1657-1736.

Le Clerc, Jean.

Jaquelot, M. (Isaac), 1647-1708.

Jaquelot.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dialogues of Maximus and Themistius is the first English translation of Pierre Bayle’s last book, Entretiens de Maxime et de Thémiste , published posthumously in 1707. The two parts of the Dialogues offer Bayle’s final responses to Jean Le Clerc and Isaac Jaquelot, who had accused Bayle of supporting atheism through his writings on the problem of evil. The Dialogues defends Bayle’s thesis that the problem of evil cannot be solved by reason alone, but serves only to demonstrate the necessity of faith. In his Introduction to the Dialogues , Michael W. Hickson provides detailed historical and philosophical background to the problem of evil in early modern philosophy, as well as summary and analysis of Bayle’s debates with Le Clerc and Jaquelot.

Contents:

Front Matter / Michael W. Hickson

Introduction / Michael W. Hickson

Afterword / Michael W. Hickson

Notes on the Text / Michael W. Hickson

Bibliography / Michael W. Hickson

Foreword / Michael W. Hickson

An Examination of Le Clerc’s Case against Bayle / Michael W. Hickson

Four Serious Problems with Le Clerc’s Objection That was Based on Several Inferences He Drew from Bayle’s Opinion / Michael W. Hickson

Whether Le Clerc’s Zeal was Delayed / Michael W. Hickson

Le Clerc’s Response to the Accusation of Socinianism / Michael W. Hickson

Whether It is Possible to Reject an Evident Proposition / Michael W. Hickson

What Le Clerc Said Concerning the Trinity and the Pyrrhonian Abbé / Michael W. Hickson

Discussion of Le Clerc’s Remarks on the Three Propositions to Which Bayle Reduced His Own Position / Michael W. Hickson

Retortion of Le Clerc’s Accusations / Michael W. Hickson

That Le Clerc Delivers Religion, as Well as Himself, Hands and Feet Bound, over to the Atheists / Michael W. Hickson

Whether Le Clerc Had Recourse to the Same Refuge as Bayle; An Addition to What He Said Concerning the Trinity / Michael W. Hickson

Plastic Natures / Michael W. Hickson

Several Remarks on Origenism / Michael W. Hickson

What is the Nature of Tolerance According to Le Clerc? / Michael W. Hickson

General Reflections on the Proceedings of Le Clerc against Bayle / Michael W. Hickson

Whether Jaquelot is an Arminian Neophyte / Michael W. Hickson

First of Jaquelot’s Faults: He Attacked Bayle’s Doctrine without Admitting That He Knew That It was the Same as That of the Reformed, and He Pretended to Believe That It was Very Different / Michael W. Hickson

Second of Jaquelot’s Faults: He Believes That the Same Doctrine is Innocent or Blameworthy Depending on the Intentions of Those Who Teach It / Michael W. Hickson

Third of Jaquelot’s Faults: He Claims That Bayle Removes Every Sort of Freedom from Man / Michael W. Hickson

Whether There is Something That Could Have Misled Jaquelot. Two Characteristics of Bayle’s Dictionary / Michael W. Hickson

Fourth of Jaquelot’s Faults: He Attacks Bayle on the Agreement of Faith and Reason, yet in the End He Says the Same Thing as Bayle / Michael W. Hickson

Examination of the Three Differences That Jaquelot Found between His and Bayle’s Doctrines / Michael W. Hickson

Reflection on the Phrases ‘Abandoning Reason’ and ‘being Contrary to Reason’ / Michael W. Hickson

That It Appears by the State of the Question Given by Bayle That There is No Real Dispute between Him and Jaquelot / Michael W. Hickson

Fifth of Jaquelot’s Faults: He Sought a Compromise That Nobook-body Needed / Michael W. Hickson

Examination of Jaquelot’s Reply to the Difficulties Concerning the Origin of Evil. He Abandons Common Notions / Michael W. Hickson

Whether Jaquelot Should Have Focused on the Question of Whether Bayle Believes That God is the Author of Sin / Michael W. Hickson

Examination of the Five Principles That Jaquelot Substituted for the Common Notions That He Rejected / Michael W. Hickson.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-32143-8

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004321434 DOI