Scepticism against Intolerance? Moses Mendelssohn and Pierre Bayle's "Dialogue" on Spinoza in Mendelssohn's Philosophische Gespräche (1755)

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ID3454274
AuthorsGuillem Sales Vilalta (0000-0003-1326-6767, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume15
Issue1
Pages49
Publication date2023-12-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel15010049
OpenAlexW4390272477
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited11

The goal of this article is to argue for the three following theses: (1) that Moses Mendelssohn's Philosophische Gespräche (1755) offer a rehabilitation of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) in explicit opposition to the stigmatization that Spinoza suffered in the German lands from the beginning of the 1670s; (2) that the article "Rorarius" from Pierre Bayle's (1647-1706) Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697-1698) is a crucial source for Mendelssohn's strategy to rehabilitate Spinoza; (3) that Mendelssohn's use of Bayle as a source constitutes an unexplored link between oppressed religious minorities. To show this, the article will consist of an introductory part to set the subject matter and three subsequent parts, one for each of the points that I am going to argue for

German · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Theology · Humanities and Social Sciences · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and Historical Thought · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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