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From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution
Brill’s Studies in
Intellectual History
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VOLUME 291
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From Bayle to the Batavian
Revolution
Essays on Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century
Dutch Republic
By
Wiep van Bunge
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Anonymous print of the taking and looting of Bergen op Zoom in 1747.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bunge, Wiep van, author.
Title: From Bayle to the Batavian revolution : essays on philosophy in the
 eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / by Wiep van Bunge.
Other titles: Brill’s studies in intellectual history ; v. 291.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018. | Series: Brill’s studies in
 intellectual history ; 291 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045213 | ISBN 9789004359550 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Enlightenment—Netherlands. | Philosophy, Dutch—18th century.
Classification: LCC B4005 .B86 2018 | DDC 199/.492—dc23
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: the Exception of the Dutch Enlightenment 1
1
Bayle’s Scepticism Revisited 21
1
The Dutch Refuge between Golden Age and Dutch
Enlightenment 21
2
The Bayle Enigma 25
3
Bayle on Toleration 28
4
Bayle’s Scepticism 31
5
Bayle’s ‘Pyrrhonism’ 34
6
Conclusion 39
Bayle and Erasmus: the Politics of Appropriation 42
1
Erasmus of Rotterdam 42
2
Bayle on Erasmus 47
3
Erasmus and Bayle in the Republic of Letters 52
4
Conclusion 57
Bayle’s Presence in the Dutch Republic 59
1
Bayle among the Dutch 59
2
Justus van Effen and Bernard Mandeville 63
3
A Sceptical Crisis in the Dutch Republic? 65
4
Aftermath 71
Justus van Effen on Reason and Virtue 77
1
Introduction 77
2
Moderate? 79
3
De Hollandsche Spectator 87
4
Conclusion 89
Dutch Cartesianism and the Advent of Newtonianism 94
1
Voltaire versus Descartes 94
2
Dutch Cartesianism and Newtonianism 96
3
Burchard de Volder 99
4
Cartesian ‘Rationalism’ 103
2
3
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