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oapen-20.500.12657-891882024-04-03T02:24:35Z Chapter The Notions of Erroneous Conscience in Pierre Bayle Cavaillé, Jean-Pierre Erroneous conscience pyrrhonism moral rationalism atheism intolerance This essay explores the reciprocal contamination of the notions of error and erring at the beginning of the early modern time in Latin and Romance languages, through the example of the concept of “erroneous conscience”. This concept, for Pierre Bayle and those who followed him at least on this point, allows for the decriminalization of religious beliefs, and even those that challenge religion(s), by recognizing the “rights of the erroneous conscience”. This right is a right to error and to erring/wandering limited to religious convictions and apparently aimed solely at “tolerance” (supporting and excusing erroneous/wandering opinions). However, it did not escape contemporaries that it radically challenged the very idea that a universal truth could be universally known and established in this field. 2024-04-02T15:49:06Z 2024-04-02T15:49:06Z 2023 chapter ONIX_20240402_9791221502664_157 9791221502664 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89188 ita Knowledge and its Histories application/pdf n/a 9791221502664_08.pdf https://books.fupress.com/doi/capitoli/979-12-215-0266-4_8 Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4.08 This essay explores the reciprocal contamination of the notions of error and erring at the beginning of the early modern time in Latin and Romance languages, through the example of the concept of “erroneous conscience”. This concept, for Pierre Bayle and those who followed him at least on this point, allows for the decriminalization of religious beliefs, and even those that challenge religion(s), by recognizing the “rights of the erroneous conscience”. This right is a right to error and to erring/wandering limited to religious convictions and apparently aimed solely at “tolerance” (supporting and excusing erroneous/wandering opinions). However, it did not escape contemporaries that it radically challenged the very idea that a universal truth could be universally known and established in this field. 10.36253/979-12-215-0266-4.08 bf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870 9791221502664 2 15 Florence open access
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This essay explores the reciprocal contamination of the notions of error and erring at the beginning of the early modern time in Latin and Romance languages, through the example of the concept of “erroneous conscience”. This concept, for Pierre Bayle and those who followed him at least on this point, allows for the decriminalization of religious beliefs, and even those that challenge religion(s), by recognizing the “rights of the erroneous conscience”. This right is a right to error and to erring/wandering limited to religious convictions and apparently aimed solely at “tolerance” (supporting and excusing erroneous/wandering opinions). However, it did not escape contemporaries that it radically challenged the very idea that a universal truth could be universally known and established in this field.
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