biography
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| lived:
| (1647–1706)
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| biography:
| Protestant philosopher and critic, born in Carlat, S France. In 1675 he took the chair of philosophy at Sedan until forced into exile at the University of Rotterdam in 1681, where he published a strong defence of liberalism and religious toleration. He was dismissed from the university in 1693 following the accusation that he was an agent of France and an enemy of Protestantism. In 1696 he completed his major work, the Dictionnaire historique et critique, a sceptical analysis of philosophical and theological arguments, which came to be influential in the 18th-c Enlightenment. |
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