Faith, Sincerity and Morality: Mandeville and Bayle

James, Edward

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“…AQ10. Please provide the editor name, publisher name and location for references James (1975), Pinkus (1975), Primer (2001), Prior (2000b), Schochet (2000).…”

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“…See Robertson 2005, 273-277. Mandeville's interpreters are therefore divided between those who recognise in his thought the idea of Anglican orthodoxy (Chiasson 1970;Pinkus 1975) or, on the contrary, the defence of radical Calvinism (James 1975(James , 1996; those who place him within the libertine tradition, 27 or those, last but not least, who recognise an ambiguity in his works, remarking on the elements that make one think that Mandeville was both «a pious Christian, an ascetic, and an unusually austere moralist» and, at the same time, «at best an easy-going man of the world, at worst a profligate, a cynic, a scoffer at all virtue and religion» (Monro 1975, 1).…”

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“…See also F.B. Kaye, Introduction, in Mandeville 1924aJames 1975;Horne 1978, 19-32;Scribano 1980, 21-46;Carrive 1980, 155-194;Scribano 1981, 186-220;Wong 1984, 394;James 1996;Primer 2001;Robertson 2005, 261-283. 11 Scribano 1981.…”

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Atheism, Religion and Society in Mandeville’s Thought

Simonazzi

2015

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science

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Starting by analysing the atheist's character, Mandeville gets gradually closer to Bayle's thesis on virtuous atheism, but he takes a different turn, and maintains that a society without religion cannot exist because atheism goes against a natural passion, fear of invisible causes. In order to understand Mandeville's position on this last point, in the second part of this essay I will consider his reflection on the origin and on the social and political functions of religion.

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“…58 As a result, his broad intellectual affinity to Spinozism and the Dutch radical republican stream more generally, has been obscured by claims that he was not as radical or deistic as he sounds and even that his 'religious views are really much more conventional and anodyne than Bayle's'. 59 Hence, while it is granted that throughout his works Mandeville 'criticized the excessive pretensions of the clergy, accusing them of inciting disputes among the laity and interfering in secular affairs', 60 there is nevertheless a marked unwillingness to concede what Bishop Berkeley, Francis Hutcheson and many other critics claimed in his own time, namely that he was an atheist or radical deist beyond the pale of respectability. 61 In fact, there was much that was radical and subversive in Mandeville.…”

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The Intellectual Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism (1660–1720)

Israel

2004

European Journal of Political Theory

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Arguably, the tradition of democratic republican theory which arose in the Dutch Republic in the years around 1660 in the writings of Johan and Pieter de la Court, Franciscus van den Enden and Spinoza played a decisively important role in the development of modern democratic political theory. The tradition did not end with Spinoza but continued to develop in the United Provinces and -in the work of Bernard Mandeville, who seemingly belongs more to the Dutch than the British republican tradition -in London, down to the early 18th century. The failure in most histories of republicanism to appreciate how strikingly different intellectually, and as an ideology, the Dutch tradition was from the Anglo-American republican tradition, has had the effect of obscuring its central importance in the development of radical republicanism in mid-and late 18th-century France. key words: democratic republicanism, Dutch Republic, freedom of the individual, radical enlightenment, Spinozism, tolerationThe western academic world has, of course, long taken a keen interest in the theoretical origins of what is everywhere regarded as probably the most important single component in the make-up of 'modernity', namely the concept of the democratic republic based on equality, toleration and freedom of the individual. Not unnaturally, the search has focused in particular on the intellectual contexts of the English, American and French revolutions. Indeed, in terms of political theory, the discussion has revolved almost entirely around English, American and -albeit perhaps to a lesser extent -French themes and ideas.Yet it is possible to question whether all the major elements of the picture have yet been taken into consideration. Certainly, there are relevant intellectual traditions which have been noticeably played down. In the years since the many affinities linking the political ideas of the Brothers de la Court with those of Spinoza -and Spinoza's extensive use of the writings of the de la Courts in article 7

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The Duel in Early Modern England

Peltonen¹

2003

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Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.

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Faith, Sincerity and Morality: Mandeville and Bayle

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Atheism, Religion and Society in Mandeville’s Thought

Atheism, Religion and Society in Mandeville’s Thought

The Intellectual Origins of Modern Democratic Republicanism (1660–1720)

The Duel in Early Modern England

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