Feel like renouncing Christianity? Wow! One of the most famous Meslier phrases -- that the world's liberation would only be achieved when "the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest" -- is frequently and erroneously attributed to Diderot. Here's the link:Doug, thank you. Winter 2006 (New Politics, Vol. Too bad we can't all recognize equally well the dangers we all face as a species living, filling, and polluting the one tiny fragile lifeboat in space that we all share. 4, Whole Number 40) translated by Marvin Mandell . 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 550 pages in the recent English translation by Michael Shreve (Prometheus Books, 2009), is …
It's easier to bring people together via common fears and dangers than via a common love. Michel Onfray (French: [miʃɛl ɔ̃fʁɛ]; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher.Having a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist world view, he is a highly prolific author on philosophy, having written more than 100 books.
MICHEL ONFRAY founded the tuition-free Université Populaire. Still, some of Cioran's words are immensely interesting and quotable. He professed it, demonstrated it, arguing and quoting, sharing his reading and his reflections, and seeking confirmation from his own observations of the everyday world… Meslier had spent the greater part of his life working on it. Just leave a tome to be discovered after your death!Thanks for the book suggestion Luke!
Wells fan. I'll look for Onfray's book when it comes out in English. Cioran in his youth was also, it turns out, pro-fascist, very confident that the Romanian fascist dictator and also Hitler were in the right, and that killing people was right to support such a state of affairs.
Ah humanity, if only there weren't so many of us using up so many natural resources and spewing forth so much pollution. Jean Meslier and "The Gentle Inclination of Nature" By: Michel Onfray. He couldn't sleep and rode his bicycle relentlessly throught the countryside at night to try and weary himself enough to sleep.
So does the famous author and skeptic, Martin Gardner, who is a big Chesterton and also H.G. Weird the paths we all take. Of a Certain Jean Meslier.
A few years ago I discovered E. M. Cioran, another writer whose works were translated from the French, like The Trouble With Being Born, and, A Brief History of Decay.
Jean Meslier We have “De natura deorum” by Cicero, but it’s rather a history of theism considering some atheist thinkers. Hän toimi kirkkoherrana pienessä maalaisseurakunnassa. Thanks for sharing :)Reminds me of Plethon. Jean Meslier (myös Mellier, 15. kesäkuuta 1664 Mazerny – alkukevät 1733 Étrépigny) oli ranskalainen katolisen kirkon pappi, joka vaikutti voimakkaasti valistuksen syntyyn. His own Mom apparently said if she'd known he would wind up as depressed as he did, she'd have aborted him. Still, I enjoy Voltaire.
I sympathized with many of Cioran's sentiments and arguments even though he took nihilism and feeling mentally isolated to a whole new level. Yet they were the very life of that age. I had never heard of this guy so luckily unlike you I don’t have to wait years to read it! Then he was drawn to mystical monkish types of Christianity, then to nihilism. The history of true atheism had begun.I first heard about Meslier years ago, and have been waiting ever since for the first English translation of his Wow, this is so cool! )Meslier is available, and only recently so !, at gutenberg.org. p. 39), trained for the priesthood. Thanks for altering me via email concerning both Onfray and Meslier. So, I have to thank you for these two items of interest... because grumbling about my having to face these two areas of my _ignorance_ would be bad form. Don’t feel like being persecuted for it? Anyway, Meslier’s book is the first one that survived integrally. Such a recognition of nature's threats and might thus help bring us together, at least that's the conclusion I've arrived at: Do You Fear What Might Happen If The World Believed In Evolution?right, a page from Meslier's original samizdat manuscript Take these for instance: A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth...Look around you: everywhere, specters preaching, each institution translates a mission; city halls have their absolute, even as the temples -- officialdom, with its rules -- a metaphysics designed for monkeys...Everyone trying to remedy everyone's life: even beggers, even the incurable aspire to it: the sidewalks and hospitals of the world overlow with reformers. There are no more horizons beyond which we can project our anger and fears without them coming right back at us from the opposite direction since our globe grows increasingly tinnier ever since advances in web-technology, travel, and moving goods. Jean Meslier (1664–1729), under pressure from his parents (cf. Prior to announcing Meslier mesier the first atheist philosopher, Onfray considers and dismisses Cristovao Ferriera, a Portuguese and former Jesuit who renounced his faith under Japanese torture in and went on to write a book entitled The Deception Revealed.
JEAN MESLIER: The essay that follows is from one of the forthcoming tomes of Michel Onfray's projected six-volume Counter-history of Philosophy.