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Agathon (centre) greeting guests in Plato's Symposium, oil on canvas by Anselm Feuerbach, 1869; in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany.
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Aristotle (384-322 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher and scientist. One of the most influential philosophers in the history of Western thought, Aristotle established the foundations for the modern scientific method of enquiry. Statue
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Colorful mulitcolord illuminated gallery tunnel rainbow passage under NAI building, Netherlands Architecture Institute near Museum Park, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German philosopher. Print published in London, 1812. Profile portrait surrounded by Ouroboros ancient Egyptian-Greek symbolic serpent with tail in mouth devouring itself representing unity of material and spiritual in eternal...
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Boat travels down a canal in Amersterdam, The Netherlands
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History of Technology Timeline
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
Cathedrale St.Jean in Lyon, France has a 14th-century astronomical clock that shows religious feast days till the year 2019; Perpetual Calendar
Ten Days That Vanished: The Switch to the Gregorian Calendar
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Town of Sisimiut located on the coast of the Davis Strait on Kangerluarsunnguaq Bay, Greenland
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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Pierre Bayle: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jean Delvolve, Religion, critique, et philosophie positive chez Pierre Bayle (1906); Howard Robinson, Bayle the Skeptic (1931).

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First paragraph modernization. Feb 15, 2024
Anniversary information added. Dec 24, 2023
Anniversary information added. Nov 14, 2023
Modified link of Web site: Christian Classics Ethereal Library - Biography of Pierre Bayle. Dec 30, 2019
Media added. Dec 16, 2009
Added new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Pierre Bayle. Jun 26, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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