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Bayle a Mandeville. Dvě rané konceptualizace společnosti ateistů

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Tomeček M.
Filosofický časopis (Philosophical Journal)
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2021
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vol. 69
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issue 4
695-710
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A society composed of atheists was thought impossible in early modern Europe. An atheist, it was believed, will not keep a promise since he or she does not fear divine retribution. Thus, atheists cannot cooperate in a long-term enterprise and form a viable society. Pierre Bayle was the first thinker to challenge this common assumption, though some fifty years later his follower Bernard Mandeville rejected his arguments. But the sincerity of such arguments is always questionable in the early modern period, it being illegal and punishable to publicly advocate atheism. Some atheists, as was demonstrated to be the case with Anthony Collins, wrote from contrived theistic positions, actually trying to undermine Christianity with purposefully weak arguments for the existence of God. But the atheism of such authors cannot be deduced from their published writings, only from other of their documents and from their contemporaries’ memoirs. Applying this methodological insight to Bayle and Mandeville will enable us to see their arguments for and against an atheistic society in a new light.
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Společnost složená z ateistů byla v raném novověku považována za nemožnou, neboť panovalo všeobecné přesvědčení, že na slovo ateisty se nedá spolehnout, protože se nebojí posmrtného trestu. Ateisté nemohou tedy dlouhodobě spolupracovat a vytvořit společnost. Jako první polemizoval s tímto přístupem Pierre Bayle, jeho žák Bernard Mandeville však o padesát let později jeho stanovisko odmítl. O upřímnosti argumentů vznášených v souvislosti s otázkou ateismu koncem sedmnáctého a počátkem osmnáctého století je však možné vždy pochybovat, protože ateismus byl v té době trestný postoj a nikdo se k němu veřejně nehlásil. Proto někteří ateisté psali z předstíraně teistických pozic a svými záměrně slabými argumenty, jimiž podporovali Boží existenci, víru naopak podrývali, jak ukazuje případ Anthonyho Collinse. Ovšem ateismus takových autorů není možné prokázat z jejich publikovaných textů, ale jedině z jiných dokumentů a vzpomínek jejich současníků. Právě takový metodologický přístup nám při analýze koncepcí Pierra Bayla a Bernarda Mandevilla umožní dospět k novým závěrům ohledně jejich představ o fungování náboženství ve společnosti.
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Discording Enlightenments on China: Pierre Bayle’s Skepticism vs Johan Jacob Brucker’s Exoticism

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Ambrogio S.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2021
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issue 3
157-177
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It is usually acknowledged that the core contribution of the Enlightenment is primarily twofold: the first being the introduction of reason and science as judgmental principles, and the second being the belief in the future progress of humankind as a shared destiny for humanity. This ‘modern’ reason—an exclusively human prerogative among creatures—could be applied to create a better society from the political, civil, educational, scientific, and religious points of view. What is usually less known is that for most of the Enlightenment thinkers, this philosophical and cultural step was the prerogative of European or Western-educated thinkers, which implied a gradual exclusion of extra-European civilizations from human progress as a natural phenomenon. Thus, with the exception of a few French libertines, the creation of a better society was due to reason and critical thinking absent in other civilizations, who could, at most, inherit this ‘rational power’ from Western education. This exclusion, which is usually attributed to the violence of the colonialist period, is already implied in the arguments of several Enlightenment thinkers. Our investigation will follow three steps: an exposition of the three Western historical paradigms in which Eastern civilizations were inserted between the 17th and 18th century; a comparison between the attitude toward China and Buddhism of two very distant philosophers of the Enlightenment—i.e. Pierre Bayle (1647– 1706) and Johann Jacob Brucker (1696–1770)—and a brief reflection on the Enlightenment from an ‘external/exotic’ point of view that will suggest the necessity of a ‘new skeptical Enlightenment’ for inducing actual intercultural dialogue.
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"Słownik historyczny i krytyczny" Pierre‘a Bayle i jego brytyjscy czytelnicy

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Grzeliński A.
Kultura i Wartości
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2015
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issue 15
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Der Artikel rekonstruiert den Einfluss der Gedanken des französischen Philosophen und Historiker Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) auf die Philosophen und Literaten der britischen Aufklärung. Dieser Einfluss war sehr breit, wozu die weiteren englischen Ausgaben seines Hauptwerkes – des Historischen und kritischen Wörterbuchs (1697) – beigetragen haben. Bayle übte einen sehr starken Einfluss sowohl auf die Freimaurer und die Deisten (Toland, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Collins), als auch auf die führenden britischen Empiristen (Locke, Berkeley und Hume) aus, obwohl es dabei oft zu Verfälschungen seiner Ansichten gekommen ist.
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The article reconstructs the influence the thought of Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), the French philosopher and historian, had on British enlightenment philosophers and men of letters. The reason of his deep impact was the success of three succcessive English editions of his greatest work, namely Historical and critical dictionary (1697). To Bayle’s thought indebted were both eighteenth-century freethinkers and deists (Toland, Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Collins) and most eminent British empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, Hume), though its reception was frequently accompanied by various misunderstandings. Summarised by Adam Grzeliński
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Artykuł rekonstruuje wpływ myśli francuskiego filozofa i historyka Pierre’a Bayle’a (1647–1706) na filozofów i literatów brytyjskiego Oświecenia. Wpływ ten był bardzo szeroki, do czego przysłużyły się kolejne angielskie edycje jego najważniejszego dzieła, jakim był Słownik historyczny i krytyczny (1697). Bayle bardzo silnie oddziałał zarówno na wolnomyślicieli oraz deistów (Tolanda, Shaftesbury’ego, Mandeville’a Collinsa), jak i czołowych brytyjskich empirystów (Locke’a, Berkeleya i Hume’a), choć bardzo często dochodziło przy tym do przeinaczania jego poglądów.
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From Toleration to Laïcité: Bayle, Voltaire and the Declaration of the Rights of Man

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Stenger G.
Dialogue and Universalism
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2021
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issue 2
145-161
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This paper traces the history of the philosophical and political justification of religious tolerance from the late 17th century to modern times. In the Anglo-Saxon world, John Locke’s Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) gave birth to the doctrine of the separation of Church and State and to what is now called secularization. In France, Pierre Bayle refuted, in his Philosophical Commentary (1685), the justification of intolerance taken from Saint Augustine. Following him, Voltaire campaigned for tolerance following the Calas affair (1763), and the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) imposed religious freedom which, a century later, resulted in the uniquely French notion of laïcité, which denies religion any supremacy, and any right to organize life in its name. Equality before the law takes precedence over freedom: the fact of being a believer does not give rise to the right to special statutes or to exceptions to the law.
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