Jean Meslier Reviewed. Michel Onfray's Radical Lights
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Counter-history of the philosophy, French Lights, Materialism, MeslierAbstract
The following article was written in 2013, motivated by 2012’s Brazilian translation release, by
WMF Martins Fontes, of The Ultra Ones of the Lights, the 4th volume of Michel Onfray’s Counter-history of
the philosophy. One of its characters who was prominently featured in the Onfray’s book is Jean Meslier
(1664-1729), materialist philosopher, atheist, sensualist in the epistemological and ethical sense,
communist, anticlerical, antichristian, and at the same time, due to force majeure, priest of a village, and,
because of Voltaire, who was the most extensive propagandist of him, even not being in an honest
manner regarding his writings at all, a precursor of the French Lights. Here in Brazil, in the ‘80s, Maria
das Graças de Souza had shown to the readers and, above all, to the Brazilian researchers, with the same
Onfray’s enlightening verve and the appropriate honesty, which was not the case in Voltaire’s attitude,
the life and the thought of Jean Meslier. These are the Meslier’s presentations and reviews dealt with in
this article.
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