- Gebundene Ausgabe: 595 Seiten
- Verlag: Prometheus Books (22. September 2009)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1591027497
- ISBN-13: 978-1591027492
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,8 x 16,1 x 3,8 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 275.758 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Radical and epic
23. Januar 2011
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
This book is epic. Published just a short time after his death in 1729 this is the first time we can read the full original work in English, NOT Voltaire's heavily edited version (takes the fun bits out) which is usually called Superstition in All Ages.
Ok.... Meslier hates God, all gods, he loves to mock Jesus, to pour contempt on prophets, he hates all Kings and princes BECAUSE they are kings and princes! and the bishops that support their illegitimate rule, their underlings the petty priests, cannons and monks. He dissects prophets who babble nonsense, he exposes massive flaws in the 'holy' bible's authority. I must point out unfortunately the book does mention 4 or 5 times the Jews, how they are a most despised and hated people etc, this is a sad mistake the Author made in an otherwise triumphant shotgun blast to tyranny and oppression.
I'll just give some typical chapter headings:
4: First proof: Of the vanity and falsity of religions, which are all only human inventions
11: Weakness and vanity of the so-called miracles to authorise any truth of religion
16: The wisdom and learning contained in the so-called Holy Scriptures are only human
18: The miracles reported are unbelievable and the reason why
41: Sixth proof: Of the vanity and falsity of the Christian religion, taken from the abuse, the unjust persecutions, and the tyranny of rulers, which it tolerates or authorizes
60: Most of the learned and wisest of antiquity denied or doubted the existence of the gods
76: There are many false prophets and many false miracles
(there are 97 chapters)
Some times the method is like a flow chart, other times he gives us his stream of conscientiousness. This book is intellectual & philosophical, it is VERY angry, it is righteous and forceful. Meslier's message must have been loud in the ears of the revolutionaries in France when they put their priests in boats.. and sank the boats >;) but in the book Meslier does generously at ONE point say his readers shouldn't kill priests. Oh boy does Meslier hate priests...
He is humourous, he is ruthless, he gives us soap box chapters on animal rights and an entire chapter devoted to monks, begging them to get a proper job.
Extremely radical. Height of the Enlightenment. Anti-tyranny, anti-religion, anti-state.
Ok.... Meslier hates God, all gods, he loves to mock Jesus, to pour contempt on prophets, he hates all Kings and princes BECAUSE they are kings and princes! and the bishops that support their illegitimate rule, their underlings the petty priests, cannons and monks. He dissects prophets who babble nonsense, he exposes massive flaws in the 'holy' bible's authority. I must point out unfortunately the book does mention 4 or 5 times the Jews, how they are a most despised and hated people etc, this is a sad mistake the Author made in an otherwise triumphant shotgun blast to tyranny and oppression.
I'll just give some typical chapter headings:
4: First proof: Of the vanity and falsity of religions, which are all only human inventions
11: Weakness and vanity of the so-called miracles to authorise any truth of religion
16: The wisdom and learning contained in the so-called Holy Scriptures are only human
18: The miracles reported are unbelievable and the reason why
41: Sixth proof: Of the vanity and falsity of the Christian religion, taken from the abuse, the unjust persecutions, and the tyranny of rulers, which it tolerates or authorizes
60: Most of the learned and wisest of antiquity denied or doubted the existence of the gods
76: There are many false prophets and many false miracles
(there are 97 chapters)
Some times the method is like a flow chart, other times he gives us his stream of conscientiousness. This book is intellectual & philosophical, it is VERY angry, it is righteous and forceful. Meslier's message must have been loud in the ears of the revolutionaries in France when they put their priests in boats.. and sank the boats >;) but in the book Meslier does generously at ONE point say his readers shouldn't kill priests. Oh boy does Meslier hate priests...
He is humourous, he is ruthless, he gives us soap box chapters on animal rights and an entire chapter devoted to monks, begging them to get a proper job.
Extremely radical. Height of the Enlightenment. Anti-tyranny, anti-religion, anti-state.
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A pick for any spirituality or world history library
21. Februar 2010
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
TESTAMENT; MEMOIR OF THE THOUGHTS AND SENTIMENTS OF JEAN MESLIER offers the first English translation of the complete work by Michael Shreve, presenting an early 18th century manifesto that shocked the establishment and influenced progressive thinkers from Voltaire to Diderot. His work helped release anarchy that led to the French Revolution and eventually to the works of Karl Marx, and is a pick for any spirituality or world history library.
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The Testament of an Angry Village Priest
19. Februar 2012
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
Eric Sherman, in the review above, has it backward. "Good Sense (Le Bon Sens)," published anonymously in 1772, was indeed written by d'Holbach, but it was wrongly attributed to Jean Meslier for many years. It is an entirely different book. The manuscript for "Testament" was discovered among Melier's effects after his death in 1729 (when D'Holbach was six years old), and the various extracts that were subsequently published undoubtedly influenced both d'Holbach and Diderot. An excellent account of this is given in Philipp Blom's book, "A Wicked Company."
Meslier was a village priest, very ordinary by most appearances, who dutifully performed his duties to his parish for forty years, and yet all the while he retreated to his study in the evenings to secretly write a remarkable and angry anti-religious screed. It was perhaps the first overtly atheistic book to come out of the Enlightenment, and Meslier knew that to publish it during his lifetime would invite imprisonment and even death. It is a long and often tedious book, but well worth the effort.
Meslier was a village priest, very ordinary by most appearances, who dutifully performed his duties to his parish for forty years, and yet all the while he retreated to his study in the evenings to secretly write a remarkable and angry anti-religious screed. It was perhaps the first overtly atheistic book to come out of the Enlightenment, and Meslier knew that to publish it during his lifetime would invite imprisonment and even death. It is a long and often tedious book, but well worth the effort.
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