Abstract:The complete scholarly edition of Bayle's correspondence adds many new and intriguing details to our knowledge of his career, associates, and preoccupations. However, Bayle was always guarded and cautious about his innermost thoughts and purposes; many of his core concerns and commitments remain veiled from our view. Thus the continuing basic disagreement in recent scholarly literature about him—was he ultimately a committed Protestant, Pyrronist skeptic, atheist, or "Spinozist"'?—is unlikely to be resolved any time soon. Even so, there are grounds for arguing that the scholarly edition provides evidence that does enable us to considerably narrow that disagreement.

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皮埃尔·贝尔的信函及其对思想史的意义

摘要：拜尔书信的完整学术版为我们对他的职业、同事和关注点的了解增加了许多新的和有趣的细节。然而，贝勒始终对自己内心深处的想法和目的保持警惕和谨慎；他的许多核心关切和承诺在我们看来仍然隐瞒。因此，近期学术文献中关于他的持续基本分歧——他最终是一个坚定的新教徒、Pyrronist 怀疑论者、无神论者还是“斯宾诺兹主义者”？——不太可能很快得到解决。即便如此，仍有理由认为学术版提供的证据确实使我们能够大大缩小这种分歧。