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 Julien Offroy De La Mettrie Summary
77 words, approx. 1 pages 1709-1751 French physician and philosopher whose materialistic interpretations of psychic and physiological phenomena were published in A Natural History of the Soul (1745), L'Homme-machine(1747), Discourse on Happiness (1748), and The Small Man... summary from source:
 La Mettrie, Julien Offray De (1709–1751) Summary
2,765 words, approx. 9 pages La Mettrie, Julien Offray De(1709 286. Wright, John P., and Paul Potter, eds. Psyche and Soma: Physicians and Metaphysicians on the Mind -Body Problem from Antiquity to Enlightenment. Oxford: Clarendon Press,... summary from source:
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (December 25, 1709 - November 11,1751) was a French physician and philosopher, the earliest of the materialist writers of the Enlightenment. He has been claimed as a founder of cognitive...
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 Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation The materialist tropes of La Mettrie.(Julien Offray de La Mettrie's machine-man)
09/22/2007: 8,832 words, approx. 29 pages La Mettrie's machine-man, figure of determinist constraint, is in his own way curiously insubstantial. While the image of l'homme-machine evokes matter as a disciplinary instance--an operation upon the will that renders the latter docile and tactile all at once (1)--his functioning is anything... summary from source:
The Historian La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment. (book reviews)
03/22/1993: 494 words, approx. 2 pages "Women's bodies contain more fluid than men's, and as it sloshes around it excites their passions, dampens their reason, and renders them all but ineducable." "Dysentery should be treated by strong purgatives, which aid the body's curative powers." "The English are violent because...
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