Jean Meslier (French: [melje]; also Mellier; 15 June 1664 – 17 June 1729) was a French Catholic priest (abbé) who was discovered, upon his death, to have...
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Meslier is originally a French surname, and can refer to the following: People: Jean Meslier (1664–1729), Catholic priest who was discovered after his...
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book In Defense of Atheism (2007), Michel Onfray describes the priest Jean Meslier as the first person to write an entire text in support of atheism: For...
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dispatched his heroes to a fictional country located near South Africa. Jean Meslier, the writer of Memoire, composed the first atheistic manifesto in modern...
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philosopher Jean Meslier praised him as freedom fighter against tyranny. Jacques Clément, who assassinated King Henry III of France in 1589. Jean Châtel,...
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Jean Meslier (1664–1729), whose posthumously published lengthy philosophical essay (part of the original title: Thoughts and Feelings of Jean Meslier...
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René Ménil Maurice Merleau-Ponty Marin Mersenne Jean Meslier Régis Messac Émile Meyerson Gaston Milhaud Jean-Claude Milner Victor Riqueti de Mirabeau Robert...
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explain sufficiently why he was executed, but his disciples were not. Jean Meslier (1664–1729) had similar thoughts in the 18th century. In chapters 33...
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Hitchens Baron d'Holbach Lawrence Krauss Michael Lou Martin Karl Marx Jean Meslier Friedrich Nietzsche Michel Onfray Bertrand Russell Peter Singer Victor...
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resonance with à rouer ("to be beaten up") and roué (a débauché). In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Rousseau in March 1719, Voltaire concludes by asking that, if Rousseau...
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