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1985
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Serge Deruette, « Sur le curé Meslier, précurseur du matérialisme », Annales historiques de la Révolution française (documents), ID : 10.3406/ahrf.1985.1129
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ON THE CURE MESLIER, FORERUNNER OF MATERIALISMN This text is concerned with the place of the curé Meslier in the field of French philosophy and ideology. The author insists on the strong originality of this thinker of the beginning of the XVIIIth century. He shows how far in advance the curé was on his time, in the fields of atheism, materialism, communism and revolutionist thought. He points out that Meslier represents a break with cartesianism, that is, the gap between La Méthode 'system and materialism. The author argues that this great progress in the history of ideas was possible, not in spite of, but because of Meslier 's lack of knowledge of the philosophical ideas which announced the Enlightenment. Serge DERUETTE.
