Jean Meslier revisitado: as ultraluzes de Michel Onfray

The following article was written in 2013, motivated by 2012’s Brazilian translation release, byWMF Martins Fontes, of The Ultra Ones of the Lights, the 4th volume of Michel Onfray’s Counter-history ofthe philosophy. One of its characters who was prominently featured in the Onfray’s book is Jean Meslier(1664-1729), materialist philosopher, atheist, sensualist in the epistemological and ethical sense,communist, anticlerical, antichristian, and at the same time, due to force majeure, priest of a village, and,because of Voltaire, who was the most extensive propagandist of him, even not being in an honestmanner regarding his writings at all, a precursor of the French Lights. Here in Brazil, in the ‘80s, Mariadas Graças de Souza had shown to the readers and, above all, to the Brazilian researchers, with the sameOnfray’s enlightening verve and the appropriate honesty, which was not the case in Voltaire’s attitude,the life and the thought of Jean Meslier. These are the Meslier’s presentations and reviews dealt with inthis article.