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L'Homme Machine
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) was a French physician and philosopher of the Enlightenment. He wrote other works such as The Hedonist Alternative: "Anti-Seneca" and Other Texts,The Wisdom of Pleasures: "The School of Voluptuousness" and "The Art of Enjoyment",Carnal Philosophy: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Erotics, etc.
He explains, “If there is a God, He is the Author of nature as well as of revelation. He has given us the one to explain the other, and reason to make them agree. To distrust the knowledge that can be drawn from the study of animated bodies, is to regard nature and revelation as two contraries which destroy each the other, and consequently to dare uphold the absurd doctrine, that God contradicts Himself in His various works and deceives us. If there is a revelation, it can not then contradict nature. By nature only can we understand the meaning of the words of the Gospel, that God contradicts Himself in his various works and deceives us.” (Pg. 86)
He states, “Man is so complicated a machine that it is impossible to get a clear idea of the machine beforehand, and hence impossible to define it. For this reason, all the investigations have been vain, which the greate
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie
French physician and philosopher (1709–1751)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (French:[ɔfʁɛdəlametʁi]; November 23, 1709[1] – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine (Man a Machine).[2]
La Mettrie is most remembered for taking the position that humans are complex animals and no more have souls than other animals do. He considered that the mind is part of the body and that life should be lived so as to produce pleasure (hedonism). His views were so controversial that he had to flee France and settle in Berlin.
Early life
[edit]La Mettrie was born at Saint-Malo in Brittany on November 23, 1709, and was the son of a prosperous textile merchant. His initial schooling took place in the colleges of Coutances and Caen. After attending the Collège du Plessis in Paris, he seemed to have acquired a vocational interest in becoming a clergyman, but after studying theology in the Jansenist schools for some years, his interests turned away from the Church. In 1725, La Mettrie entered the College d'Harcourt to study philosophy and natural science, probably graduating around 1728. At th
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Denis Diderot
French thinker and author (1713–1784)
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