bayle in A Sentence

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    Bayle's writings defending this value are newly timely today.

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    From Bayle forwards, tolerance was never a weak“anything goes” affair.

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    If Bayle is right, respect for difference above all rests upon recognising our own limitations;

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    Bayle concludes all people should be tolerated based on what they do, not what they say.

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    Bayle would point to crusaders, such as those presently being heroised by many on the far and alt-right.

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    For Bayle, such people claim their creed is the only absolute truth, despite the limitations of human understanding and the many different creeds in the world.

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    To combat this outcome, and underscore the limits of tolerance, Bayle finally introduces a further argument which would, via Voltaire, become central to the enlightenment period.

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