Pierre Bayle and the Secularization of Conscience

, ABSTRACT:, 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 the...

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Main Author: Hickson, Michael W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2018
In: Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2018, Volume: 79, Issue: 2, Pages: 199-220
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