When1: 1697
Who: Pierre Bayle [Bayle, Pierre]
What: philosopher
Where: Paris, France
works\ Historical and Critical Dictionary [1697]
Detail: He lived 1647 to 1706. Nobody can know absolute truth, so faith must have constraints, and people should have religious tolerance. Reason can know its duty. Conscience knows ethical truths intuitively and immediately, though they are not innate. Ethical truths are the same for all people.
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