Concept
Jesuits
Overview
male religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church
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If a few young Jesuits, knowing that the Church has condemned the Jansenists, proceed to burn a house of the Oratorian priests because the Oratorian Quesnel was a Jansenist, it is clear that these Jesuits ought to be punished. Again, if the Jesuits have acted upon improper maxims, and their institute is contrary to the laws of the kingdom, their society must be dissolved, and the Jesuits must be abolished and turned…
Voltaire, Toleration and other essays
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In like manner, if these latter have been found to teach the most reprehensible doctrines, and if their institution appears contrary to the laws of the kingdom, it becomes necessary to abolish their society, and of Jesuits to make them useful citizens; which, in fact, so far from being an oppression upon them, as has been pretended, is a real good done them; for where is the great oppression of being obliged to wear…
Voltaire, The Works of Voltaire, Vol. IV of XLIII. Romances, Vol. III of III, and A Treatise on Toleration.
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He was (so he says) an able man, of a methodical mind and of great assiduity. He worked for twenty-two years at his _Augustinus_. One of his aims was to refute the Jesuits on the dogma of free will; yet no decision has yet been reached as to whether he rejects or adopts freedom of indifference. From his work innumerable passages [345] are quoted for and against this opinion, as Father Annat has himself shown in the…
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil
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Philosophers who discussed Jesuits
- Francisco Suárez
- Bernard Lonergan
- Étienne Gilson
- Francis Bacon
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Karl Leonhard Reinhold
- Giordano Bruno
- Julian Huxley
- Roberto Mangabeira Unger
- Giambattista Vico
- Marshall McLuhan
- Claude Adrien Helvétius
- Cesare Beccaria
- Pierre Gassendi
- Mencius
- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
- Joseph de Maistre
- Converso
- Antoine Arnauld
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
- Thomas More
- Pierre Bayle
- Umberto Eco
- Voltaire
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Place in the tradition
Part of Antireligion.