Liberté de conscience et tyrannie
À propos de la référence à Sébastien Castellion et de la mention du respect de la conscience erronée dans Les Essais de Montaigne
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20144041 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olivier Millet (0000-0003-2371-2396, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 50 (Number 191 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 13-42 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Moreana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-8105 • E-ISSN: 2398-4961 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/more.2013.50.1-2.4 |
| OpenAlex | W2588216336 |
| Language | FR |
This paper shows how Montaigne, without saying so, borrows from Castellion the idea of freedom of conscience in favour of heretics, advocating respect for erroneous conscience. In Book I of the Essais, the reference to Castellion, first implicit (Essais I, chap. 16), then explicit (chap. 35), leads the political and religious debate of the time to hinge on tyranny and respect for erroneous conscience, applied to the heretics. The parallel (enlarged to Mino Celsi) between Castellion and Montaigne on the opposition between tyranny and freedom of conscience, in the context of religious wars, underscores both the ideological differences between these two thinkers and their objective convergence in view of a pragmatic compromise allowing freedom of worship in a divided France
Compromise · Conscience · Epistemology · Freedom of thought · Humanities · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Religious freedom · Theology · Worship · French Literature and Criticism · Law · Philosophy · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
| Highly cited | No |
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