· Titled Memoir of the Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier, but more commonly known as The Testament of Jean Meslier, this lengthy book of 97 chapters and over pages in the recent English translation by Michael Shreve (Prometheus Books, ), is an outright and highly polemical defense of atheism. In fact, they are the words of a quiet, modest parish priest named Jean Meslier, who died in early 18th-century France and left behind his copious Testament as a legacy for his www.doorway.rus: · Testament by Jean Meslier, translated by Michael Shreve (Prometheus, £) It’s curious that it has taken nearly years for Jean Meslier’s only work to be translated into English. After all, apart from being perhaps the first European since Roman times to put his name to an overtly atheist document, Meslier was an early agrarian socialist and an www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 4 mins.
Meslier's thoughts were later counterfeited in pirate editions of his work, which created confusion by bringing together Voltaire's toned-down version with a text from the radical philosopher Baron d'Holbach (), called Le Bon Sens under the common title, Le Bon sens du curé J. Meslier suivi de son testament (The good sense of the. Život. Jean Meslier se narodil v roce ve vesnici Mazerny, která leží asi 20 km jižně od města Charleville-Mézièwww.doorway.ru otec byl domácím tkalcem. Po absolvování bohosloveckého semináře v Remeši se stal roku farářem v Châlons-sur-Marne (později přejmenováno na Châlons-en-Champagne).V roce byl ustanoven farářem v obci Étrépigny, která se rozkládá asi. Testament of Jean Meslier: The Vanity of Religion. Author: Luke Muehlhauser. ico_facebook. ico_twitter. Jean Meslier () served as a Catholic priest for 40 years, but after his death was discovered to have written the very first book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism. I'm blogging my way through the book.
Les oeuvres complètes de Voltaire. General editors: Haydn Mason Nicholas Cronk. Tome 56A: Oeuvres de (I) [Testament de Jean Meslier, Eloge de M. de Crébillon, Saül u. a.]. Voltaire (): Published by Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, , Jean Meslier, priest of Etripigny and of But in the Champagne region, a native of the village of Mazerni, a dependency of the Duchy of Mazarin, was the son of a worker in serge. Raised in the countryside, he nevertheless pursued his studies and arrived at the priesthood. Living soberly at the seminary, he became attached to Descartes’s system. Meslier’s Testament was too hot even for him, and his extracts were clearly chosen to make the priest appear to be a Deist like himself. He went so far as to state that it was ‘the testimony of a priest who asks forgiveness of God’ – a complete travesty since Meslier makes it abundantly clear that “there is no.
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