Politique and savant. Jean Bodin facing the challenge of tolerance

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Manuel Tizziani
Instituto de Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales Universidad Nacional del Litoral CONICET
Argentina
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Vol 36 No 2 (2017), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.36.2.3735
Submitted: 18-11-2016 Accepted: 13-02-2017 Published: 09-06-2017
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What attitude did take Jean Bodin in the face of the confessional conflict that ravaged France during the sixteenth century? What answers did he offer to the challenge of tolerance? These are the questions that guide our inquiry. According to our thesis, in fact, Bodin’s answers seem to have been postulated mainly on two planes: the political and the philosophical. In the first, the Angevin would have tried to offer better juridical foundations to the position of the politiques, group of intellectuals who looked for intercede between Huguenots and Catholics; in the second, it would have propitiated the dialogue of savants, the only men capable of deposing the passions when discussing their religious differences. Through the analysis of two important writings of the author, Les six livres de la République (1576) and the Colloque entre sept savants (c.1593), we will seek to support our reading hypothesis.

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politique, savant, Bodin, tolerance, true religion
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