How old ideas about tolerance can help us live more peacefully today
- Written by Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University
Pierre Bayle said all peoples’ beliefs and rituals should be tolerated out of respect for their fundamental humanity.Joshua Earle/Unsplash
It is telling that the greatest early modern philosophical defender of tolerance was a refugee.
Pierre Bayle, a Protestant, fled his native France in 1681. He would lose several family members in the...
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