Virgile bayle biography definition

Pierre Bayle (November 18, 1647 – December 28, 1706) was a French Calvinist philosopher and theologian. His life was marked by a series of difficulties with the Catholic French government, eventually resulting in his moving to the Netherlands. While many early modern philosophers (such as Descartes, Mersenne, and Berkeley) believed that skepticism could be to some degree overcome by argumentation, Bayle held that it was in fact the nature of reason to reach skeptical conclusions.

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Bayle's most significant work is probably his Dictionnaire historique et critique, consisting of articles concerning a wide range of thinkers. In addition to reporting others' views, Bayle attached footnotes to a number of the articles in which he presented his own position. The Dictionnaire was widely read, and was to influence later philosophers as diverse as Berkeley, Leibniz, and Voltaire.

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