I sympathized with many of Cioran's sentiments and arguments even though he took nihilism and feeling mentally isolated to a whole new level. I had never heard of this guy so luckily unlike you I don’t have to wait years to read it! 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. Still, I enjoy Voltaire. X, No. Reading Onfray's essay I had no idea concerning some of the pro-Catholic things Voltaire was involved with! I count myself as an atheist, reasonably well-read in the literature of reason, and I was unaware of Meslier's Testament.
Thanks for altering me via email concerning both Onfray and Meslier.
Yet they were the very life of that age. 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. In 1729! ...The compulsion to preach is so rooted in us that it emerges from depths unknown to the instinct for self-preservation. I must echo the praises from Michel Onfray:For the first time… in the history of ideas, a philosopher had dedicated a whole book to the question of atheism. 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. Jean Meslier I'm sure the Secular Web will review it as well.
Wow! His own Mom apparently said if she'd known he would wind up as depressed as he did, she'd have aborted him. Calvinism, Quakerism, Port-Royal, The Encyclopedia, the Revolution,It is no less unreasonable to grant more interest to the arguments around democracy and its forms than to those which took place, in the Middle Ages, around nominalism and realism: each period is intoxicated by an absolute, minor and tiresome, but in appearance unique; we cannot void being contemporaries of a faith, of a system, of an ideology, cannot avoid being, in short, of our time.Or take another famous writer who was funnier and more upbeat than Cioran but no less insightful, Logan Pearsall Smith, who wrote this teeny bit of trivia about [Mental] Microbes: But how is one to keep free from those mental microbes that worm-eat people's brains - those Theories and Diets and Enthusiasms and infectious Doctrines that we catch from what seem the most innocuous contacts?
We socialize, and we fight over mental territories just as lesser species fight over physical territories; we cling tightly, irrationally, to alpha male leaders; and grow intoxicated by political, philosophical, religious ideas such that you need only scratch someone so intoxicated to start an endless row.
p. 39), trained for the priesthood. Jean Meslier (myös Mellier, 15. kesäkuuta 1664 Mazerny – alkukevät 1733 Étrépigny) oli ranskalainen katolisen kirkon pappi, joka vaikutti voimakkaasti valistuksen syntyyn. Feel like renouncing Christianity? Jean Meslier (1664–1729), under pressure from his parents (cf. Ah humanity, if only there weren't so many of us using up so many natural resources and spewing forth so much pollution. 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. Meslier was influential and admired in the French Enlightenment -- Diderot also borrowed freely from Meslier while rarely giving him credit. But it seems nature is on her way to taking care of that, since all creatures that are highly fecundant, and whose wastes piles up, such as bacteria in a petri dish, eventually run up against natural limits sooner or later, be they pollution, petroleum, population, plague, etc. Hän toimi kirkkoherrana pienessä maalaisseurakunnassa. 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 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! 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. 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. For example, in 1689 Polish noble Kazimerz Łyszczyński was executed after having written a treatise “De non existentia Dei”.Well, there were ancient texts like “Peri theon” by Protagoras (5th century BC), “Peri theon” by Theodorus the Atheist (4th/3rd BC), or “Concerning Atheism” by Clitomachus (2nd BC), but it’s impossible to reconstruct their content. 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 …
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