LA METTRIE, JULIEN OFFRAY DE

zhülyăNˈ ôfrāˈ də lä mĕtrēˈ, 1709–51, French physician and philosopher. On the basis of personal observation he claimed that psychical activity is purely the result of the organic construction of the brain and nervous system and developed this theory in Histoire naturelle de l'âme (1745). The protest against his atheistic materialism was so strong that La Mettrie had to leave the country. He further alienated the public with L'Homme machine (1748), the final development of his mechanical explanation of humans and the world. He lived in Berlin under the protection of his patron Frederick the Great. His ethics, purely hedonistic, are set forth in L'Art de jouir (1751).

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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
FREDERIC THE GREATS EULOGY ON JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE. JULIEN Offray de la Mettrie was born in Saint Malo, on the twenty-fifth of December, 1709, to Julien Offray de la Mettrie...
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Biographical Dictionary of Psychology
Book by Leonard Zusne; Greenwood Press, 1984
Subjects: Psychologists--Biography--Dictionaries, Psychology--History
...7; EB , 13; EP , 4. LA METTRIE, JULIEN OFFRAY DE French Philosopher Born...Biographies: R. Boissier, La Mettrie: Medecin, pamphletaire et philosophe , 1931; P. Lamee, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, medecin, philosophe: Sa...
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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy
Book by Ted Honderich; Oxford University Press, 1995
Subjects: Philosophers--History, Philosophy--History
...Genetics New York, 1960 . La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 1709-51 . French physician...than inert. Once neglected, La Mettrie can now be seen as a pioneer of...1960 . Kathleen Wellman, La Mettrie. Medicine, Philosophy, and...
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A Historical Guide to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Book by Larry J. Reynolds; Oxford University Press, 2001
...30 , 42 Homer, Bryan, 186 LHomme Machine (La Mettrie), 52 53 House of the Seven Gables, The, 8 , 13...John Pendleton, 137 Lamarck, Jean, 94 95 de La Mettrie, Julien Offray, 52 53 Lathrop, George Parsons (son-inlaw...
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Irritating Experiments: Haller's Concept and the European Controversy on Irritability and Sensibility, 1750-90
Book by Hubert Steinke; Rodopi, 2005
Subjects: Haller, Albrecht Von--1708-1777, Irritability, Physiology--History--18th Century, Senses And Sensation
...Nelli Uomini (Alessandria: Vimercati, 1756). La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, Oeuvres Philosophiques (London: Nourse, 1751...University Press, 1960). -Le Trdit? de lame de la Mettrie. Edition Critique du Texte avec une Introduction...
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Contingency and the "Time of the Dream": Kuki Shūzō and French Prewar Philosophy
Journal article by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein; Philosophy East & West, Vol. 50, 2000
Subjects: Philosophy, Asian
...line whose beginning can be situated with the philosophy of Pierre Maine de Biran or perhaps his contemporary, Julien Offray La Mettrie, who announced in the first half of the eighteenth century (already in a way that is reminiscent of Bergson...
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Enlightenment Cybernetics: Communications and Control in the Man-machine
Journal article by Allison Muri; The Eighteenth Century, Vol. 49, 2008
Subjects: Age of Enlightenment, Cybernetics, Literary criticism, Man machine interaction, Modern literature
...were not unfounded. In France, Julien Offray de la Mettrie would later posit that learning...principle of movement," La Mettrie writes, "animate bothes will...on the nerves."80 For La Mettrie, there is no steersman in the...
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Condillac: Language, Thought, and Morality in the Man and Animal Debate
Journal article by R. Christopher Coski; French Forum, Vol. 28, 2003
Subjects: Beattie, James, Descartes, Rene, Diderot, Denis, Locke, John, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
...Manpertuis, Jaucourt, La Mettrie, and Lavoisier. These thinkers...Frommann, 1966) 9: 242-243; Julien Offray de La Mettrie, LHomme machine (Princeton...One notable exception is La Mettrie, who wonders if the animal incapacity...
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Empirical Idealism: A Modern Foundation for the Science of the Mind
Journal article by V.T. Franks; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 64, 2010
Subjects: Cognitive science--Analysis, Empiricism--Analysis, Metaphysics--Analysis, Philosophy of mind--Analysis, Psychology--Analysis
...taking shape in the 1700s, when Julien Offray de La Mettrie published his book L Homme...principles of Newtonian physics. La Mettrie wrote: "We therefore conclude...Little Rock, AR 72114. (1) Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man, A Machine (Chicago...
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Tristram Cyborg and Toby Toolmaker: Body, Tools, and Hobbyhorse in Tristram Shandy
Journal article by William C. Mottolese; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 47, 2007
Subjects: Authors, English--Works, Cyborgs--Portrayals, English writers--Works, Machine tools--Portrayals, Machine-tools--Portrayals, Machinists' tools--Portrayals, Riding toys--Portrayals, Sterne, Laurence--Works, Toy vehicles--Portrayals, Tristram Shandy (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...machine-like human body (as in Julien Offray de La Mettries notion of man...39) In a similar way, La Mettrie imagines children shuffling through...pp. 31-9, 31. (40) Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man a Machine and Man a Plant...
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Rights, Animal and Human
Magazine article by David R. Carlin; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, August 2000
Subjects: Animal rights movement--Moral and ethical aspects, Animal rights--Moral and ethical aspects, Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects, Harvard Law School--Curricula
...of the Enlightenment, a minor French philosophe, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, wrote a book titled LHomme Machine. If humans...also machines, though less refined and complex. La Mettrie suggested, for instance, that the reason apes cannot...
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Troubled Waters: Caroline A. Jones on Globalism and the Venice Biennale
Magazine article by Caroline A. Jones; Artforum International, Vol. 44, February 2006
Subjects: Art exhibitions--International aspects, Art--Exhibitions, Art--International aspects
...academy but a resurrection of those Enlightenment living rooms (brilliant women hosting Goethe or parrying with Julien Offray de la Mettrie) where radical freedoms could be imagined. Not platforms for pronouncements, but spaces of possibility for...
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Putting Man before Descartes: Human Knowledge Is Neither Objective nor Subjective. It Is Personal and Participant-Which Places Us at the Center of the Universe
Magazine article by John Lukacs; American Scholar, Vol. 78, Winter 2009
Subjects: Historical criticism--Evaluation, Objectivity--Evaluation, Subjectivity--Evaluation
...mechanical causality that computers are more than 250 years old--well outdated. In 1749 a French rationalist, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, wrote Man a Machine. That concept was new then (though perhaps even then not much more than one of those...


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La Mettrie, Julien Offray De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LA METTRIE, JULIEN OFFRAY DE zhulyaN ofra d la metre , 1709 51, French physician and philosopher...The protest against his atheistic materialism was so strong that La Mettrie had to leave the country. He further alienated the public with LHomme...


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