"China" and the Emergence of Religious Toleration in Enlightenment Philosophers, Part I

"The Early Jesuit Mission and Bayle's Conception of "Reciprocal Toleration

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4079592
AutoresXile Hui (0000-0003-3822-8599, Sun Yat-sen University, autor de correspondencia), Mario Wenning (0000-0003-0676-0425, Universidad Loyola Andalucía)
Año2024
Volumen19
Número11
Fecha de publicación2024-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.70014
OpenAlexW4404685040
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas16

This article reconstructs the influence of Jesuit missionary writings focusing on China on the emergence of a distinctive conception of toleration. The article highlights the often neglected contributions of Pierre Bayle. After a brief reconstruction of key elements of the Sino-European encounter, such as the Kangxi Emperor's edict of toleration, the paper describes how Bayle's interpretation of the China Mission contributed to a critique of religious persecution in France and enabled him to develop a defense of a rationalist approach to toleration. The article demonstrates that Bayle's knowledge of China and his methodology of intercultural changes in perspective contributed to the development of an original conception of reciprocal toleration

China · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Reciprocal · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity