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La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment

by Kathleen Wellman. 344 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Kathleen Wellman

Publisher:

   Duke University Press

Place of Publication:

  Durham, NC  

Publication Year:

  1992
Subjects:   La Mettrie, Julien Offray De,--1709-1751, Physicians--France--Biography, Philosophers--France--Biography
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La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment
Book by Kathleen Wellman; Duke University Press, 1992
Subjects: La Mettrie, Julien Offray De--1709-1751, Philosophers--France--Biography, Physicians--France--Biography
...acid-free paper 1. La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751. 2. Physicians-- France...routes to Enlightenment. Julien Offray de La Mettrie chose a particularly...he returned to France La Mettrie attacked the physicians...
2.
Descartes: An Intellectual Biography
Book by Stephen Gaukroger; Clarendon Press, 1997
Subjects: Descartes, Rene--1596-1650, Philosophers--France--Biography
...historian of childhood writing specifically on seventeenth-century France has pointed out that a high mortality and remarriage rate introduced...inaugurated a radical cultural shift in sixteenth-century France in favour of literacy and a bookish culture. The contrast with...
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Man a Machine
Book by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Frederick the Great, Gertrude Carman Bussey; Open Court, 1912
Subjects: Materialism, Mind And Body, Physiology--Early Works To 1800
...Saint Malo, on the twenty-fifth of December, 1709, to Julien Offray de la Mettrie and Marie Gaudron, who were living by a trade...public. He died on the eleventh of November, 1751, at the age of forty-three years. He had married...
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The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France
Book by John J. Conley; Cornell University Press, 2002
Subjects: Women Philosophers--France--Biography
...Introduction: Salon Philosophy 1 II. Madame de Sable: A Jansenist Code of Moderation 20 III...Deshoulieres: A Naturalist Creed 45 IV. Madame de la Sabliere: The Ethics of the Desert 75 V. Mademoiselle...
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Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France
Book by Orest A. Ranum; University of North Carolina Press, 1980
Subjects: France--History--17th Century--Historiography, Historians--France--Biography
...history; and over the next two centuries this assertion would be repeated in numerous prospectuses for histories of France. 37 Bude blames the Monarchy for the French failure to achieve recognition as having accomplished grandes choses...emperor" and "scholar." Our attention is caught by Budes easy use of the term gens de lettre sic for the poets, philosophers, historians, and rhetoricians of Antiquity. The projection of this definition upon Antiquity reveals Budes willingness...
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Journal article; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
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...freedom for women. Birth controllers used the prestige of physicians and tradition of the limited state to promote their reform...1993 ), 343-77. On reproductive issues and feminism in France, see Felicia Gordon, "Reproductive Rights: The Early...Control Politics , chap. 2. 7. Phyllis Cheslers biography of Margaret Sanger offers much insight into and evidence...
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...Revolution, and Social Identities in France, 1830-1835 (Pennsylvania State UP, 2002...Own Lives, Berger; for Placing Auto biography in Geography, Moss; for Voices of Women...Lawrence. Rev. of Cimbala and Himmelberg. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 21.3...Introduction: Reflections on Scientific Biography." The Excitement and Fascination of...
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Journal article by Birgit A. Jensen; Biography, Vol. 28, 2005
Subjects: Autobiographies--Analysis, Autobiographies--History, Autobiographies--Works, Working class women--Personal narratives, Working class women--Social aspects
...autobiography Unterwegs. Eine Selbstbiographie On the Road: A Self-Biography, the factory worker and later Social Democrat Heinrich Holek...proletarian life-writings of nineteenth-century Britain and France, German working-class autobiographies have received only...Selbstbiographie. Mit Bildnis des Verfassers On the Road. A Self-Biography. With a Portrait of the Author. Vienna: Bugra, 1927. Jacobi-Dittrich...
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Magazine article by Paul Edwards; Free Inquiry, Vol. 18, Summer 1998
Subjects: Beginning--Study and teaching, God--Study and teaching, Philosophers, Ancient--Philosophy, Religion--Philosophy
...self-contradiction. In this connection Hobbes covered himself by adding that God is not an object of philosophy but of theology. In De Corpore he defends the eternity of the world. As previously explained, this doctrine is not inconsistent with belief in God...
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The Afterlife of Henry of Navarre
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...eighteenth-century enlightened opinion. Yet while the philosophers worshipped at the altar of reason, they...1840s those parts of his Histoire de France concerning the Middle Ages showed sympathy...two volumes of Michelets Histoire de France concerning Henri IV appeared in 1857...impassioned apostrophic outbursts: Poor France, how forgetful you are! How little you...
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Base Matter into Gold: Jonathan Hughes Discovers the Humanity of Thomas Charnock, a Forgotten Elizabethan Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone
Magazine article by Jonathan Hughes; History Today, Vol. 55, August 2005
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...taken from the title page of Agrippas De occulta philosophiae (1531). Charnock...integrated personality. This was the true philosophers gold, captured in 1577 in Charnocks...Renaissance Culture (AMS Press, 2005); Frances Yates, The Occult Philosophy in the...
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...fascism. In the years following the Second World War, General de Gaulle orchestrated a mythology about the role of France after...Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Robert Brasillach, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle; they, like all the writers of genius or talent who...
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...accomplishments beyond the medical sphere--truly a very brilliant creature. FOR FURTHER READING: The only current definitive biography is in French: Claude Vanderpooten, Samuel Pozzi, Chirurgien et ami des femmes, (Paris, In Fine V O editions, 1993). Deborah...Caroline de Costa is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at James Cook University School of Medicine, Cairns, Australia Francesca Miller is a Los Angeles-based journalist who works in cinema and the entertainment industry.
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Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), October 5, 2004
Subjects: Follett, Ken
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Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 25, 2005
Subjects: Hume, David
...Hume. Although this is the first major biography of Hume for half a century, author Roderick...than a merchant. Hume then went to France to study and write. He returned to London...wise, it is well worth reading. This biography, admiring and admirable, is no less worthy...
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Latest Look at Castro
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 29, 2006
...communist rule. Mr. Anderson wrote a pretty sympathetic biography of the late Ernesto Che Guevara a few years ago and clearly...National Assembly, proudly declaring, "A half century in France passed from the time of the monarchy of Louis XVI, the great...women 35 +." The magazine boasts seven highly qualified physicians on its Medical Advisory Board. An exceedingly handsome and...
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Business and Society; Conversation with a Nobel Laureate
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, September 4, 2006
Subjects: Kahneman, Daniel
...When he was seven years old during the German occupation of France where his family was residing, he remembers vividly an experience...made under uncertainty. As he himself recounts in his auto-biography: "As was the case in our work on judgment, our central insights...
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Patriot Games
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 26, 1996
Subjects: Childers, Erskine
...Howth by Irelands president Eamon de Valera. With him was one of his Cabinet...family invited Tim Heald to write his biography because he is not a cricket specialist...America and got off Scott-free. This biographys plot is more convincing than any...


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La Mettrie, Julien Offray De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
LA METTRIE, JULIEN OFFRAY DE zhulyaN ofra d la metre , 1709 51, French physician and philosopher. On the basis of personal observation he claimed that psychical activity is...theory in Histoire naturelle de lame (1745). The protest against his atheistic materialism was so strong that La Mettrie had to leave the country. He further alienated the public with LHomme machine (1748), the final development of...protection of his patron Frederick the Great. His ethics, purely hedonistic, are set forth in LArt de jouir (1751). ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed...
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Jefferson, Thomas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...1785 he succeeded Franklin as minister to France, and witnessed the beginning (1789) of...1948 82) by D. Malone is the definitive biography. See Jeffersons Autobiography (new ed...repr. 1974); L. S. Kaplan, Jefferson and France (1967); M. Peterson, The Jeffersonian...


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