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L'homme machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Bernard A. Laska · Booklabria

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Bernard A. Laska
L'homme machine

PhilosophyEarly works to 1800

L'homme machine

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First published: 1748
Editions: 41 in 4 languages

Synopsis

Man a Machine (French: L'homme Machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1748. In this work, La Mettrie extends Descartes' argument that animals were mere automatons or machines to human beings, denying the existence of the soul as a substance separate from matter.

Subjects: Philosophy
Early works to 1800
Physiology
Mind and body
Materialism
Early works to 1850
Time: Early works to 1800; Early works to 1850

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41 in 4 languages

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English18 French19 German2 Multiple languages1

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