Fármaco y ponzoña. Pierre Bayle y el destino de Spinoza
- 1 Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España
ISSN: 0719-6504, 0718-4980
Year of publication: 2012
Issue: 20-21
Pages: 125-147
Type: Article
More publications in: Hermenéutica intercultural: revista de filosofía
Abstract
In this article, we analyze the role of the writings that Pierre Bayle has devoted to refute Spinoza ́s system of philosophy. Even if Bayle ́s writings have join in the avalanche of critics and refuters of the system constructed by the philosopher of Amsterdam, the effort accomplished by the French thinker has contributed, above all, to transmit the Spinozan doctrines to posterity and, in a more fundamental way, to develop some of the thesis which are going to transform the concept of atheism during the XVIIIth century. Bayle is going to develop thus, especially, the thesis that atheism and virtue are not at all incompatible.