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"China" and the Emergence of Religious Toleration in Enlightenment Philosophers, Part I: The Early Jesuit Mission and Bayle's Conception of "Reciprocal Toleration"

Authors

Hui, Xianzhe , WENNING, MARIO

External publication

No

Means

Philos. Compass

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

✗

SJR Quartile

✓

Web

https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85210093698&doi=10.1111%2fphc3.70014&partnerID=40&md5=e4d156d58523fbca8d22fceff27caf1d

Publication date

01/11/2024

ISI

001369920300001

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-85210093698

DOI

10.1111/phc3.70014

Abstract

This article reconstructs the influence of Jesuit missionary writings focusing on China on the emergence of a distinctive conception of toleration. The article highlights the often neglected contributions of Pierre Bayle. After a brief reconstruction of key elements of the Sino-European encounter, such as the Kangxi Emperor's edict of toleration, the paper describes how Bayle's interpretation of the China Mission contributed to a critique of religious persecution in France and enabled him to develop a defense of a rationalist approach to toleration. The article demonstrates that Bayle's knowledge of China and his methodology of intercultural changes in perspective contributed to the development of an original conception of reciprocal toleration.

Keywords

Bayle; China; Jesuit mission; religious toleration; the Enlightenment

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