Neither Pyrrhonian nor Creationist, Materialist and Revolutionary
Natural Philosophy and Politics in Jean Meslier’s Mémoire
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pyrrhonism, creationism, materialism, atheism, natural philosophy, political action, revolutionAbstract
Based on a thesis of Margaret Jacob, this article has two aims: on the one hand, it analyses Jean Meslier’s natural philosophy in order to highlight the supremacy of the materialist hypothesis over the creationist; on the other hand, it links his metaphysical position with his proposal for political action in order to show that the popular and revolutionary atheism defended by the priest is compatible with the idea that movement is an essential quality of matter, and not an effect of God’s will.
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