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Louis Dupré describes deism as "the result of a filtering process that had strained off all historical and dogmatic data from
Christian theology and retained only that minimum which, by eighteenth-century standards, reason demands." Atheism is perhaps the same process taken a step further. Buckley credits the rise of atheism with the gradual submission of theology to philosophyâas thinkers, including church leaders, began to argue religion on philosophical terms, they opened the way for disbeliefâthey made atheism thinkable. Deism is, in this perspective, a complicated waypoint on the path to atheism: deism is the philosophical belief in a deity based on reason. Once belief in God is based on reason, it becomes thinkable to reason one's way into disbelief.
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but simply an incidental one in regard to those who would have been immoral from disposition or temperament, whether
Atheists or not." In response to criticism, he included an essay "Clarifications: On Atheists" in the 1702 edition of the Dictionary. In it, he continued defending his thesis that "there have been atheists and Epicureans whose propriety in moral matters has surpassed that of most idolators", arguing that religion is not the sole basis of morality. It is, he wrote, "a very likely possibility that some men without religion are more motivated to lead a decent, moral life by their constitution, in conjunction with the love of praise and the fear of disgrace, than are some others by the instincts of conscience."
381:âinstead of publishing his atheistic works, he tended to circulate them among his friends or give them to Naigeon for posthumous publishing. Diderot espoused a materialist worldview. He attempted to solve the problems of how the cosmos could begin without a creator, and theorized about how life could come from inorganic matter. According to DuprĂ©, Diderot concluded that if one abandons "the unproved principle that the cosmos must have a beginning" then the need to establish the "efficient cause" of creation is no longer a problem. Diderot thought that the origin of life might be a process of the natural internal evolution of matter.
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Radical Enlightenment, on the other hand, was the view of toleration where the radicals demanded freedom of thought and expression, rather than existing peacefully among each other. This movement was shaped by the lesser-known figures of d'Holbach, Diderot, Condorcet, and, in particular, Spinoza, who provided the heart and soul of this faction. Where reason reigned supreme for the radicals, the moderate thinkers maintained that reason must be limited by faith and tradition. Together, the two different views of Enlightenment forged powerfully contrasting notions of toleration.
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He similarly denied toleration to
Catholics on the grounds that papal authority made them a danger to the state. In essence, Locke advanced a freedom of worship, not a freedom of thought. The vast majority of eighteenth-century writers, like Locke, had no interest in granting religious tolerance to ideas that deviated from the core of revealed religion. Most of these writers were strongly opposed to Spinoza's ideal of toleration, which is "chiefly about individual freedom and decidedly not the freedom of large ecclesiastical structures to impose themselves on society".
360:(1711â1776) was often seen as an atheist in his own day. His skeptical attitude toward religion in such works as "Of Superstition and Religion", "Essays Moral and Political", "On Suicide", "On the Immortality of the Soul", "Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion", as well as his death-bed conversations with Boswell (later published), earned Hume the reputation as a practicing atheist. Hume was even turned down for a teaching position at the University of Edinburgh in the 1740s because of his alleged atheism.
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some doubt as to the accuracy of this statement. In any case, D'Holbach himself was a professed atheist. The salon was the site of a great deal of discussion about atheism, and the atheistic and theistic guests seem to have spent a great deal of time good-naturedly arguing for their respective positions. Despite claims that the salon was a hotbed of atheism, there seem to only have been three convinced atheists in regular attendance: D'Holbach, Denis
Diderot and
269:, who adopted deistic attitudes to varying degrees. Deism, in this respect, is very different from atheism, which denies the existence of a deity altogether. Voltaire, for instance, was convinced that the existence of god was a demonstrable fact. The deistic god, however, often bore little resemblance to the God of Christian scripture, which meant that deists were often heavily criticized by the adherents of confessional faiths and could be accused of atheism.
327:, criticized Judaism (his birth religion) and all organized religion. His philosophical orientation is often called "pantheism", a term coined by John Toland after Spinoza's death. However, in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Spinoza's name was often associated with atheism, freethinking, materialism, deism, and any other heterodox religious belief. Whether or not "pantheism" constitutes atheism is still debated by modern scholars.
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239:, in his 1763 "A Treatise on Toleration", continued in the tradition of John Locke, arguing that toleration allowed communication and good relationships between differing confessions in the marketplace. Allowing the Huguenots to return to France would boost the French economy. He would not be the only one to espouse this viewpoint.
305:, borrowing the term coined by Toland. Jacob argues that "there is a streak of freethinking or deism that turns up at moments in the history of Continental Freemasonry right into, and especially during, the 1790s." This religious ambiguity could be interpreted as contributing to the "thinkability" of atheism.
182:. Linton argues that together, these causes shifted public opinion towards religious toleration. Religious toleration was not accepted by everyone; for instance, Abbé Houtteville condemned the rise of toleration in France because it weakened ecclesiastical authority and encouraged irreligion. However, in 1787
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In historiographical terms, it has been quite common to see a close link between deism and atheism. Buckley critiques Peter Gay's view of the direct tie between deism and atheism, writing, "the vectors which Gay charts are certainly there, but the distinction may be somewhat too neat, too overdrawn."
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suggested a pragmatic view of toleration, although he advanced a concept of toleration only between certain
Christian sects. He vehemently denied the atheists' right to toleration since they did not believe in a god, practiced no recognizable form of worship, and were not seeking to save their souls.
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summarized his position, that anti-toleration laws were engineered "for personal advantage but also at great cost to the state and the public", and that they exacerbated religious conflict rather than diminishing it. Spinoza constructed his theories about toleration based on a freedom to think rather
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had been issued in 1598, then revoked in 1685, there was very little support for religious toleration at the beginning of the eighteenth century. States were concerned with maintaining religious uniformity for two reasons: first, they believed that their chosen confession was the way to God and other
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Toleration itself boiled down to two different factions. The "acceptable face" of toleration was essentially the mainstream view, the freedom of worship and peaceful coexistence of different churches. This view was supported by Kant, Locke, Voltaire and Hume, as the public face of the
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he hosted in his Paris home. The salon has been interpreted as a meeting place for
Parisian atheists, based on an anecdote in which D'Holbach told David Hume, who claimed not to believe anything, that of the eighteen guests at his salon, fifteen were atheists and three had not yet decided. There is
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he stated that while atheists were "exceedingly blind and ignorant of the nature of things" there were many atheists "who are no way distinguished for their vices", and that "if atheists exist, who, morally speaking, are well-disposed, it follows that
Atheism is not a necessary cause of immorality,
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Deists often pushed for religious toleration, a move which would have supported the open expression of atheism. This is not because they supported atheismâthey did notâbut because deist philosophers tended to be in favour of the civil freedom of conscience. As
Michael J. Buckley writes, "If atheism
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describes the rise of toleration, and of atheism itself, as a response to religious violence in the preceding years: the expulsion of the Huguenots from France, the Spanish inquisition, the witch trials, the civil wars of England, Scotland and the Netherlands. Buckley argues that "religious warfare
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in continental Europe during the Enlightenment era were accused of atheism. The masonic "Constitutions" of 1723 are vague on the matter of religion, stating that if a Freemason "rightly understands the Art, he will never be a stupid Atheist, nor an irreligious Libertine", while also asking that he
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follow "that religion to which all men agree, leaving their particular opinions to themselves". Although Masonic literature referred sporadically and vaguely to a "Grand Architect of the Universe", their secretive practices made the religious affiliation of each Freemason a matter of speculation.
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granted an Edict of Toleration acknowledging their civil rights to marry and own property, although they were still denied the official right to worship and could not hold public office or become teachers. Full religious toleration for Protestants would not be granted until the French Revolution.
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as being particularly concerned with advancing the cause of atheism. Kors summarized some of the basic themes of these three texts as the idea that rigorous materialism was the only coherent viewpoint, and that "the only humane and beneficial morality was one deduced from the imperatives for the
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argued for individual freedom to express personal beliefs, while discouraging large congregations unless they belonged to a somewhat deistic idealized state religion. According to Spinoza, freedom of thought, speech and expression were the core values of tolerationâas such, Spinoza opposed
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contains an example of this sort of anticlerical thought. Hobbes, like Toland and other anticlerical writers of the period, understood religion in terms of history. By viewing religious truth and the church as separate, they helped open the way for further religious dissent.
481:, Maréchal proclaimed that he had no more need of God than God needed him, and proclaimed such an attitude was "true atheism" after rejecting several competing stances. He outright rejected the idea of masters ruling his life, and that included the will of any god. For him,
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did contribute to some extent to the rise of French toleration, the activities of French Huguenots also played a part: they began to worship more publicly in the more remote regions of France, and their continued loyalty to the French crown on the eve of and during the
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According to Justin Champion, the question in England was not one of determining religious truth, whether or not there was a god, but rather one of understanding how the priesthood had gained the power to determine what was accepted as truth. Republican radicals like
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would wage war on intolerance and superstition". Although he wanted to diminish the influence of Spinoza, Bayle was treated in a similar fashion by the Huguenots of the United Provinces, who saw him as a dangerous thinker and a potential atheist.
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than the right to worship, and was established according to philosophical principles rather than being based on any interpretation of scripture. Consequently, Spinoza was essentially arguing for everyone, atheists, Catholics and Jews included.
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religions were heretical, and second, religious unity was necessary for social and political stability. The advancement of toleration was the result of pragmatic political motives as well as the principles espoused by Enlightenment
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understood religion as a social and cultural institution, rather than as transcendent principles. They were primarily motivated by priestly fraud or "priestcraft". The second half of
450:(published 1751â1772) was driven and edited by the atheist Denis Diderot, the encyclopedia's articles on atheism and atheists take a negative tone, having been written by the pastor
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was unacceptable, superstition and fanaticism were even more so." Deists were not pro-atheist, but their anticlerical leanings indirectly benefited the evolution of atheism.
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167:philosophes
150:John Toland
125:philosophes
121:philosophes
84:materialist
2560:Categories
2373:Villarroel
2368:Jovellanos
2304:Radishchev
2251:Micu-Klein
2189:Niemcewicz
2156:Swammerdam
2146:Nieuwentyt
2136:Mandeville
1991:Farmakidis
1877:Burlamaqui
1786:La Mettrie
1761:Fontenelle
1716:d'Argenson
1711:d'Alembert
1635:Harrington
1561:Utopianism
1461:Liberalism
1418:Empiricism
1393:Classicism
1383:Capitalism
1266:2021-11-28
1252:"Atheisme"
1237:2021-11-28
974:Dupré, 50.
945:Bayle 2000
933:Bayle 2000
921:Bayle 1826
909:Bayle 1826
897:Bayle 1826
845:Jacob, 94.
402:' and the
389:See also:
358:David Hume
353:David Hume
286:Freemasons
251:See also:
230:John Locke
180:Calvinists
88:David Hume
47:d'Alembert
2494:Jefferson
2436:Hutcheson
2325:ObradoviÄ
2294:Lomonosov
2289:Kheraskov
2199:Ćniadecki
1963:Weishaupt
1958:Thomasius
1948:Pufendorf
1791:Lavoisier
1776:d'Holbach
1771:Helvétius
1751:Descartes
1746:Condorcet
1741:Condillac
1675:Priestley
1492:Modernity
1413:Democracy
1037:Yvon 2008
1024:Kors, 45.
965:Kors, 47.
521:Tuck 2003
475:anarchism
385:D'Holbach
303:pantheist
219:Louis XIV
184:Louis XVI
176:Jansenist
158:Leviathan
104:pantheism
72:D'Holbach
2544:Category
2489:Franklin
2456:Playfair
2426:Ferguson
2383:Scotland
2330:MrazoviÄ
2284:Kantemir
2279:Fonvizin
2218:Portugal
2184:Krasicki
2179:Konarski
2174:KoĆĆÄ
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2126:Koerbagh
2075:Genovesi
2060:Beccaria
2022:Berkeley
1953:Schiller
1918:Humboldt
1892:Saussure
1887:Rousseau
1851:Voltaire
1806:Maréchal
1781:Jaucourt
1736:ChĂątelet
1731:Chamfort
1680:Reynolds
1583:Thinkers
1487:Midlands
1476:LumiĂšres
1446:Humanism
1439:Haskalah
1250:(2008).
1223:(eds.).
1213:"Athées"
1211:(2008).
1199:(eds.).
1136:(1999).
1096:(1987).
1075:(1826).
340:Huguenot
237:Voltaire
2499:Madison
2471:Stewart
2411:Burnett
2406:Boswell
2391:Beattie
2363:MoratĂn
2348:Cadalso
2299:Novikov
2234:Romania
2209:Wybicki
2204:Staszic
2151:Spinoza
2121:Huygens
2116:Grotius
2070:Galvani
2065:Galiani
2015:Ireland
1996:Feraios
1968:Wieland
1933:Lessing
1928:Leibniz
1901:Germany
1882:Prévost
1867:Abauzit
1831:Quesnay
1821:Morelly
1811:Meslier
1796:Leclerc
1756:Diderot
1645:Johnson
1620:Collins
1615:Bentham
1600:Addison
1593:England
1541:Science
1378:Atheism
1066:Sources
887:, 2007.
379:Naigeon
364:Diderot
314:Spinoza
203:Spinoza
156:' book
61:atheism
57:atheism
43:Diderot
39:Atheism
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2451:Newton
2441:Hutton
2421:Cullen
2318:Serbia
2266:Russia
2256:Èincai
2166:Poland
2106:Bekker
2080:Pagano
2042:Toland
2006:Korais
2001:Kairis
1983:Greece
1913:Herder
1908:Goethe
1872:Bonnet
1860:Geneva
1846:Turgot
1836:Raynal
1826:Pascal
1766:Gouges
1704:France
1690:Tindal
1685:Sidney
1660:Newton
1655:Milton
1630:Godwin
1625:Gibbon
1522:Reason
1364:Topics
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98:, and
2509:Paine
2504:Mason
2466:Smith
2416:Burns
2401:Blair
2396:Black
2340:Spain
2246:Maior
2141:Meyer
2085:Verri
2052:Italy
2037:Swift
2032:Burke
2027:Boyle
1973:Wolff
1801:Mably
1721:Bayle
1670:Price
1650:Locke
1640:Hooke
1610:Bacon
1408:Deism
1215:. In
497:Notes
404:salon
263:Deism
258:Deism
2461:Reid
2446:Mill
2431:Hume
2090:Vico
1923:Kant
1841:Sade
1665:Pope
871:ISBN
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