Julien Offray de La Mettrie (French: [ɔfʁɛ də la metʁi]; November 23, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the...
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text in its entirety. La Mettire was a French physician and philosopher, and an early exponent of French materialism. La Mettrie is chiefly famous for...
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French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1747. In this work, de La Mettrie extends Descartes' argument that animals...
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Prominent French materialists of the 18th century include: Julien Offray de La Mettrie Denis Diderot Baron d'Holbach Claude Adrien Helvétius Pierre...
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Mechanism (philosophy) (section de Laplace)
mechanists. Among them were Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot. The French mechanist and determinist Pierre Simon de Laplace formulated some implications...
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times: Voltaire, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Pierre-Louis de Maupertuis and the atheist Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Lord Chesterfield, Thomas...
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football player Julien Nitzberg (born 1966), an American film director, script writer and theatre director Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751), a French...
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between animals and humans, but Man a Machine (L'homme Machine) by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1747, extended Descartes' argument to humans...
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first influential writer to propose such an idea explicitly was Julien Offray de La Mettrie, in his book Man a Machine (L'homme machine). His arguments,...
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Thinkers Ajita Kesakambali Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Jovinian Julien Offray de La Mettrie Aristippus Epicurus Fred Feldman Theodorus the Atheist Michel...
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which included Gabriel Naudé, Élie Diodati and François de La Mothe Le Vayer. The critic Vivian de Sola Pinto linked John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester's...
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de Maupertuis (1698–1759), mathematician and astronomer Bertrand-François Mahé de La Bourdonnais (1699–1753), sailor and administrator Julien Offray de...
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2002. L'invention du plaisir : fragments cyréaniques. Le Livre de Poche. —— 2006. La puissance d'exister : Manifeste hédoniste. Grasset & Fasquelle Pearce...
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functioned as a machine. This idea was developed further by Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1750) in his book L'Homme Machine. In the 19th century...
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S2CID 171459875. De Mijolla, Alain (2005). "pleasure/unpleasure principle". International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis. Macmillan Reference USA. De Mijolla, Alain...
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misidentification of apes or monkeys. The French materialist philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751) included a section titled "On savage men, called...
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of materialist philosophy by French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie Maschinenmensch ("machine-human"), a robot featured in the film...
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by radical enlightenment philosophers like Baron d'Holbach, Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Another notable example of clandestine...
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platinum. Publication of Man a Machine (L'homme Machine) by Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Copley Medal: James Bradley Eva Ekeblad becomes the first female...
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Reduction, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 52. La Mettrie, La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (1748). L'Homme Machine (Man a Machine) Lange, Friedrich...
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Company produced a French/English version of Man a Machine by Julien Offray de La Mettrie that was founded on Bussey's translation (revised by Mary Whiton...
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sophisticated mechanical devices for entertainment. In 1747 Julien Offray de La Mettrie anonymously published L'homme machine (Man a Machine), in which...
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. p. 304. ISBN 0802824048. Munteanu, Dana LaCourse (2011). Tragic Pathos: Pity and Fear in Greek Philosophy and Tragedy...
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Prussian Academy of Sciences (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
philosopher's kingdom were Francesco Algarotti, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Immanuel Kant published religious writings in Berlin...
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Johann Georg Gmelin, German botanist (died 1755) November 23 – Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (died 1751) early – Eleanor...
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(1728–1777)[a][b][d] Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais (1752–1854)[b] Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709–1751)[a][b][c][d] François de La Mothe Le Vayer (1588–1672)[b]...
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14th-century playwright Zeami Motokiyo, the Tridentine Mass, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French Enlightenment philosopher and author of "Man a Machine"...
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of Thomas Jefferson;"". archive.org. Retrieved 6 May 2016. Michel Onfray, La puissance d'exister: Manifeste hédoniste, Grasset, 2006 Scharfstein, Ben-Ami...
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McPherson, CJ.; LeMay, K.; Allard, P.; Chary, S.; Gagnon, PR.; Macmillan, K.; De Luca, M.; O'Shea, F.; Kuhl, D.; Fainsinger, RL. (May 1, 2007). "Suffering...
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Thinkers Ajita Kesakambali Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Jovinian Julien Offray de La Mettrie Aristippus Epicurus Fred Feldman Theodorus the Atheist Michel...
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