In existographies, Jean Bodin (1530-1596) (FA:48) was a French jurist, political philosopher, and “secret atheist”, aka “undisputed intellectual master of the later sixteenth century”, noted for []. [1]
Overview
In c.1580, Bodin penned Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, which, supposedly, became and “underground classic” of 17th century atheism. [1]
Bodin has been grouped with Pietro Pomponazzi, Machiavelli, Arentino, Montaingne, Charron, and Gassendi as “secret atheists”. (Ѻ)
Quotes | On
The following are quotes on Boden:
“I have also the opinion of Kaspar Peucer and Jean Bodin who contend that evil spirits and genii exercise great power, with divine permission, in the heavens and over the earth.”
— Sanislaus Lubienietzki (1665), “Letter to Otto Guericke”, on the comet of 1664/1665, Mar 4/14; by Otto Guericke (1663) in New Experiments on the Vacuum of Space (pg. 287)
“The peaceable Epicurus never disturbed Greece; the poem of Lucretius caused no civil wars in Rome; Bodin was not the author of the league; the writings of Spinoza have not excited the same troubles in Holland, as the disputes of Gomar and d’Arminius. Hobbes did not cause blood to flow in England.”
— Baron d’Holbach (1770), The System of Nature (pgs. 311-312)
Quotes | By
The following are quotes by Boden:
“Because all of the competing religions claim to be true, all are refuted by all.”
— Jean Bodin (c.1580), Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime [1]
References
1. Stark, Rodney. (2015). For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch Hunts, and the End of Slavery (pg. 222). Princeton University Press.
External links
● Jean Bodin – Wikipedia.
