Keywords
Pierre Bayle
Religious tolerance
Freedom to philosophize
Erroneous consciousness’ rights
Reason of the State
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Abstract
Benedict of Spinoza and Pierre Bayle are typical modern thinkers who built religious tolerance on the Gnostic subjectivation of faith, the theological rationalism and the absolutism of the State. While one defends the freedom to philosophize and the other the rights of the erroneous conscience, in both systems the fundamental law is the self-conservation of the State, the modern raison d’État.
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