Pierre Bayle and the Secularization of Conscience
I argue that Pierre Bayle was the first modern author to re-secularize the concept of moral conscience after it had been tied to Christian theology for centuries. Bayle’s first moral writings espoused a traditional, theological conception of conscience which was unfit to support his theory of tolera...
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2018
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| Schlagworte: | Pierre Bayle Conscience Secularism History of Ethics Atheism Enlightenment |
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