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Letters in Bold Type Refer to Bayle’S ‘Remarks’ Cambridge University Press 0521470943 - Political Writings Bayle Index More information Index Entries in and page numbers in bold type denote Dictionary articles; letters in bold type refer to Bayle’s ‘Remarks’. Abigail, wife of Nabal, Agrippina, Abner, , , Akis, king of Geth, abominations, , , Alardus Amstelredamus, Absolom, , , , , ; and David’s Alba, duke of, concubines, ; revolt of, Albigensian heresy, absolutism, , Aldeberge (Berthe) of France, Acade´mie Franc¸aise, Dictionary of, Alegambe, Philippe, Jesuit, n acatalepsy, ; see also, Alenc¸on, duc d’, , , , Incomprehensibility; Scepticism algebra, , Acataleptics, ; see also, Sceptics; Amalekites, country of the, Pyrrhonians ambition, fewable to renounce, Achilles, Amelot, Jacques, his version of l’Histoire Acts of Apostles, n du Concile de Trente cited, n Amelot de la Houssa¨ie, Abraham Adam, and free will, – ; descendants Nicolas, , and n, of, America(s), , cruelties of Spaniards Adam, Melchior, n, . in, Adonija, eldest son of David, – Amida, Japanese god, , adultery, , , , , ;of Ammon, David, – ; of Lumeau, the Amsterdam, Gazette of, , physician, ; of Jupiter, – Amyot, Jacques, and n advisers, Anaxagoras, and n Aelian, De natura animalium [On the Anaximander, Characteristics of Animals], Ancients, , ; ideas on chaos, afflictions, Andreas Philopatrus (Parsons, Robert), afterlife, , ; see also, Soul, and n immortality of angels, hypothesis of good and bad, , aggressors, n, – © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521470943 - Political Writings Bayle Index More information Index Angers, depicted as, ; Hobbes wrongly Anglican Church, Hobbes supported, considered as, ; de l’Hoˆpital n maligned as, ; Machiavelli Angoule`me, counted among, Anselm, Saint n , Clarification on, –; antiquities, science of, good morals of those who had no anxiety, xxiv–xxvi, , , , ; religion, ; decent conduct of Tacitus on, ; Pliny on, and Epicureans, ; compared with n; and search for forbidden idolaters, ; compared with pleasures, pagans, ; theoretical vs practical, Apollo, ; see also atheism; atheist(s) apologist, compared with critic, – atoms, and the brain, ; independent Appian, n movement of, Appolodorus, n atrocities, , , Apuleius, n Aubigne´,The´odore d’, n, , Aquinas, Saint Thomas, , and n, and n Archelaus, and n Augsburg, Religious Peace of (), architecture, xxvii, xli Argos, , Augustine, Saint, xxvi, , , , – Arianism, ; see also Photinian heresy , , , , , ; ridicules Arians, , , the sexual mythology of the pagans, Ariosto, –; his Letters cited n, n; Aristocles, and n his De civitate dei, –, n; De Aristotle, , , , , , , l’utilite´ de cre´ance ; Contra , , –, n, ; Pelagium, n nurtured Machiavelli’s politics, Augustus, court of, and n; his Politics cited, and n; Austria, House of, and Henry IV’s plans, his Metaphysics, n.; Analytics, n; De caelo, n; Physics, authors, , ; duties of –; decent and n; Rhetoric, n; Posterior indecent, Analytics, n Arminian sect, and free will, Bacchus, arms bearing, , , ; refusal to Bacon, Francis, his Advancement of take up, – Learning cited, n Arnauld, Antoine, and n, n, bad faith, and n, n, n, n Baillet, Adrien, his Vie de Descartes cited, Arnobius, and n n, Arnoux, Canon de Reis, n Balzac, Guez de, , , and n, Arriaga, n Baptiste le Grain, see Le Grain assassination, xx; ; doctrine of, ; barbarities, , –, –; see also and Mariana, –; and Sainctes, D;Mˆ ;X ; see also, insurrection; tyranny Barclay, William, and n astronomy, Baronius, Ce´sar, atheism, xix; of the Epicureans, xxvi; Bartolini, Giuseppe Maria, Bayle’s beliefs concerning, xxxix–xl; Basle, no accusation more seriously Basnage de Beauval, Henri, n, , abused, ; writings of Socinius n against, –; defence of discussing Bathsheba, wife of Uriah, it, , Baudouin, [Franc¸ois, b. ?], , atheist(s), xix, –; ‘government of and n atheists’ vs ‘government of Bayle, Jacob, xxi idolaters’, xxxiii–xxxiv; Bodin Bayle, Jean, xx, xxi © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521470943 - Political Writings Bayle Index More information Index Bayle, Pierre, xi, xii; life, times, and Boccalini, Trajan, and n, , ideas, xx–xxiv; the political ideas he and n opposed, xxiv–xxxiv; the political B, xxvi, xxxvi; –; biography, ideas he supported, xxxiv–xxxvii; –; disposed towards rights of Dictionary as vehicle of persuasion, people, (I) –; opposed and xxi; his modern reputation, xxxii; weakness of monarchs (P) –; praised republican liberty, xxxvi– used rival doctrines to support xxxvii and n; commended political peace and tranquility of states (Q) prudence and reforming erroneous –; his concern for the public notions, xxxiv–xxxxi; paradox of good, ; his De instituenda in atheists and idolaters, xxiii–xxiv; his republica juventuti cited, ; his De values: xxxvii–xli; his Calvinism, la re´publique cited, , , and n, howsincere? xxxviii; on types of and n, n; Epistula ad Vidum judgement, xxxix; on spheres of Fabrum cited, , , ; judgement xxxix–xli; on application Heptaplome`res noted, of judgement, xxxix–xli; his Critique Boeclerus, , Ge´ne´rale sur l’histoire du Calvinisme Bohun, Edmund, n, n cited, xxxi, n; Nouvelles de la Boleyn, Anne, , Re´publique des lettres, xxii, and n, Bongars, Jacques, and n n; Pense´es diverses, xxii, xxxiii, bonzes of Japan, , , ; and ; Commentaire philosophique, xxii, extirpation of Christianity, ; and , ; Dissertation . sur l’essence pederasty, ; Possevin’s opinion du corps, xxii and n; Nouvelles of, Lettres sur l’Histoire du Calvinisme, Borromeo, Cardinal, n Bosius, Joannes Andreas, his On Be´arn, AttainingPolitical Wisdom cited, Beaucaire de Pe´guillon, Franc¸ois, n, n and n Bossuet, Jacques Be´nigne, bishop of Bellarmine, Cardinal, Meaux, Benedict I, Pope, n Bouhours, Dominique, Jesuit, , n Bentham, Jeremy, xix Boulay, see Du Boulay Berlin, Isaiah, xi Bourbon, Cardinal de, , Bernard, Jacques, , n Bourges, Bernier, Franc¸ois, Bernini, Giovanni-Lorenzo, Brantoˆme, Pierre de Bourdeilles, Beuchot, Adrien Jean Quintin, xiii, seigneur de l’abbaye de, n, n, n and n, , Beza, The´odore de, n, , , , British Isles, n, n, , and n, , Brun, Jean, n, , Brunehaude, queen, Bible, , Brussels, Bibliothe`que universelle, n B, –; biography, –; used Biron, Charles de Gontant, duc de, dying words to decry virtue (C) – Blackburn, Richard, n ; not wholly wrong (D) –; Blandrata, George, whether act of assassination Blois, Estates of, appropriate for circumstances (F) Blonski, Abraham, and n –; his love of liberty, ; Blount, Thomas Pope, and n; his idealism, ; his opinion of Cicero, Censura celebriorum auctorum ; his disillusion reproved, –; [Criticism of Famous Authors] was praised by Machiavelli, cited, n Burnet, Gilbert, bishop of Salisbury, Boccaccio, , n, and n © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521470943 - Political Writings Bayle Index More information Index Bussi Rabutin, comte de, and n, Catholicism, xxi, xl, , , ; and and n, doctrine of damnation, Buzneval, Paul Choart de, resented by Catiline, Elizabeth I, Catullus, , , Cayet, Pierre, Victor, n Ceres, n, Caesar, Julius, , , , , , ; his certainty, as a philosophic position, , De bello civili, cited n , ; adversaries of, Calvin, Jean, xxviii, and n, and n, Chanvalon, (Harlai, Achille de, Sieur de , , , and n, , Chanvalon), M. de, and n and n, , ; advised Laelius chaos, xxvi; in Metamorposes of Ovid, Socinus, ; compared with , , , , , , , Melanchthon, ; his views on free , ; see also,O will and necessity, ; and Charles II of England, ; showed predestination, esteem for Hobbes, Calvinism, not rigid in France, xxiii; its Charles IX of France, , and n, suppression in France, xxx; its , , , official status in the United Charles V, emperor, Provinces, ; Socinian sect Chartres, forsook it, chastity, of ecclesiastics, ; and Calvinist Party, xxvii; whether more obscenities , , – loyal than the Catholic League, Chavalier, Pierre, n Calvinists, xxix, xxxiii, , and n; childbirth, Juno’s responsibility for, , de l’Hoˆpital did not please them all, ; judges were thought to favour China, , them, ; disputed about free will, Choisi, l’Abbe´ de, , his Histoire de la ; see also Hˆ , d l’; vie de David cited, n H; Christendom, xxvi, xxviii, ; and Cambridge, university of, Bodin’s France, Republic read at, Christianity, n, , , , ; Campanella, Thomas, his Republic of the peaceful in first three centuries, Sun cited, xxiii, ; bloody and murderous in Camphusius, Theodore, and the Socinian the sixteenth century, , in Japan, sect, and n –; its extravagances concerning Camus, the worship of in Japan, , the Virgin Mary, , ; its law ; see also Fotoque against suicide, ; and and killing, Capitol, at Rome, and n; and the Socinian sect, Capri, atrocities of, , ; see also, , ; the errors and passions Mˆ ; Tiberius within, ; and infidel nations, Carrassa, Jean Pierre, Christians, , and n, , , , Cartesians, xxii, xxxiii, , , , , ; in Japan, ;in Carthage, , the Americas, ; and doctrine of Cassius, , popular sovereignty, Castalion, Sebastian, Chronicles, Book of, n Catherine de Me´dicis, , , , Church, the, , ; the authority of, , , Cicero, xxiii, , n, n, n, and n, Catherine of Aragon, n, and n, and n, n, Catholic Church, libertines within it, n, , , , , , , Catholic League, xxviii, , , , , and n, and n; on politicians –, , , , , and helmsmen, and n;
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