Reading Bayle - Lennon, Thomas M. (University of Toronto Press, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Bayle: His Life and Works -- - God and Man -- - Integrity -- - The Death of Moliere -- - The Bayle Enigma -- - The Leibnizian Fallacy -- - History, Narrative, and Fiction -- - Polyphony -- - Dialogue and Monologue -- - Authority -- - Bayle and Arnauld -- - Jansenism and Scepticism -- - The Elusive Distinction between Fait and Droit -- - Arnauld's Response to Bayle -- - A Philosophical Account of the Distinction -- - Nestorianism, Calvinism, and Jansenism -- - Rationalism and Irrationalism -- - Toleration -- - Mistaken Identity -- - Context and Kinds of Argument -- - Jurieu's Condemnation of the Erring Conscience -- - Bayle's Reply to Jurieu -- - Heresy and the Exercise of Authority -- - Idolatry -- - The Problem of Idolatry -- - Transubstantiation -- - Jurieu and Bossuet -- - Protestant Responses to a Catholic Convert -- - Bayle and the Divine Dialogue -- - Providence -- - Lotteries -- - The Legitimization of Gambling -- - Miracles and Mechanisms -- - Grace and Chance -- - Religion, Morality, and Chance -- - Fatalism, Chance, and Creation
Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) is a key intellectual figure of the period, and his Historical and Critical Dictionary is the philosophy best seller of all time. This work is a critical but sympathetic treatment of a neglected thinker of interest in the fields of the history of modern philosophy, the history of ideas, and 17th century French culture