Questions de souveraineté chez Bayle et chez Jurieu: un contexte politique déterminant

Bayle’s political doctrine: a proposal to articulate tolerance and sovereignty

“…84 With this in view, it is not surprising that Antony McKenna holds that Bayle not only lost the political game, but that his commitment to absolutism turned him into a man of the past. 85 However, as the publisher of his correspondence and a great scholar of his work, he also knows that the Philosopher of Rotterdam ended up winning the game after his death, as the great dissemination of his work and ideas shows. 86 But his political philosophy also won, as some saw it as an option for the immediate future, an option that was quite compatible with his enlightened despotism, as the admiration professed by Frederick II of Prussia and Catherine II of Russia testifies.…”