The French cleric Pierre Gassendi (1592-1665) represented the materialist tradition in opposition to the attempts of René Descartes (1596-1650) to provide the natural sciences with dualist foundations. There followed the materialist and atheist abbé Jean Meslier (1664-1729), Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the German-French Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), the Encyclopedist Denis Diderot (1713-1784), and other French Enlightenment thinkers; as well as (in England) John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822), whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
abbé Jean Meslier lived from what year to what year?
1664-1729
There followed the materialist and atheist abbé Jean Meslier (1664-1729), Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the German-French Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach (1723-1789), the Encyclopedist Denis Diderot (1713-1784), and other French Enlightenment thinkers; as well as (in England) John "Walking" Stewart (1747-1822), whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
There followed the materialist and atheist abbe Jean Meslier (sixteen sixty-four-seventeen twenty-nine), Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the German-French Paul-Henri Thiry Baron d'Holbach (seventeen twenty-three-seventeen eighty-nine), the Encyclopedist Denis Diderot (seventeen thirteen-seventeen eighty-four), and other French Enlightenment thinkers; as well as (in England) John "Walking" Stewart (seventeen forty-seven-eighteen twenty-two), whose insistence in seeing matter as endowed with a moral dimension had a major impact on the philosophical poetry of William Wordsworth (seventeen seventy-eighteen fifty).
abbe Jean Meslier lived from what year to what year?