Besides Enlightenment on Sacrifice, this man defended a widely maligned institution in his Letters to a Russian Gentleman on the Spanish Inquisition.
This man identified his philosophy regarding the Masons in his Memoir to the Duke of Brunswick. One of his works draws on Origen's On First Principles to identify the ambivalence inherent in the expiatory virtue of "the effusion of blood," though that work goes on to condemn the superstition surrounding its title concept. Besides Enlightenment on Sacrifice, this man defended a widely maligned institution in his Letters to a Russian Gentleman on the Spanish Inquisition. A series of debates between The Knight, The Count, and The Senator comprise one of his works, while the fourth part of another work begins by declaring every schismatical church a Protestant church. That work's second section deals with the title figure's relations with "his temporal sovereignties," while the first section declares its subject infallible. For 10 points, name this ultramontane Savoyard who wrote the Saint Petersburg Dialogues and presented his Catholic apologetics in On the Pope.
This man identified his philosophy regarding the Masons in his Memoir to the Duke of Brunswick.
{Joseph} de {Maistre}