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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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...illustration: Engraving of Julien Offray de la Mettrie. Courtesy of the National...routes to Enlightenment. Julien Offray de La Mettrie chose a particularly unconventional...
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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
...MAN A MACHINE BY JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE FRENCH-ENGLISH INCLUDING...Frederic the Greats Eulogy on Julien Offray De La Mettrie 1...of December, 1709, to Julien Offray de la Mettrie and Marie Gaudron, who...
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The Utopian Thought of Restif de la Bretonne
Book by Mark Poster; New York University Press, 1971
Subjects: Literature And Society--France--History--18th Century, Restif De La Bretonne--1734-1806--Political And Social Views, Social Problems In Literature, Utopias In Literature
...essay no longer exists. See F. Funck-Brentano, " Retif de la Bretonne, professeur dhistoire Moulins ," Revue des...by materialists, sensationalists, and utilitarians. La Mettrie, Condillac, Helvetius, and dHolbach had propounded a...
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Discours de la Maethode: Pour Bein Conduire Sa Raison et Chercher La Veritae Dans Les Sciences = Discourse on the Method: of Conducting One's Reason Well and of Seeking the Truth in the Sciences: a Bilingual Edition and an Interpretation of Renae Descartes' Philosophy of
Book by George Heffernan; University of Notre Dame Press, 1994
Subjects: Science--Methodology
DISCOURS DE LA METHODE DISCOURSE ON THE METHOD Rene Descartes Discours de la methode pour bein conduire sa raison et chercher...Descartes, Rene, 1596-1650. Discours de la methode . English French Discours de...
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Time and Ways of Knowing under Louis XIV: Moliere, Sevigne, Lafayette
Book by Roland Racevskis; Bucknell University Press, 2003
Subjects: Clocks And Watches--France--History--17th Century, France--History--Louis Xiv, 1643-1715, France--Social Life And Customs--17th Century, French Literature--17th Century--History And Criticism, La Fayette--Madame De--(Marie-Madeleine Pioche De La Vergne)--1634-1693--Princesse De Cleves, Moliere--1622-1673--Tartuffe, Sevigne, Marie De Rabutin-Chantal--Marquise De--1626-1696--Correspondence, Time In Literature, Time Measurements--History--17th Century
...Other indications point to Julien de Cou- dray, working in Blois...watch was signed by Jacques de la Garde in 1551. Still others...degr6s du soleil, le cours de la lune, les effets des astres...du repos, de la douceur et de la tranquillite des hom- mes...
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The Body and Technology
Journal article by Amelia Jones; Art Journal, Vol. 60, 2001
Subjects: Art, Culture, Technology
...the human body/mind complex as a "complicated machine" capable of extension into the world through vision (per Julien Offray de la Mettrie in his 1748 book Lhomme machine). Enacting technologies of representation through embodiment, visual theorists...
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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
...not unfounded. In France, Julien Offray de la Mettrie would later posit that learning...slightest principle of movement," La Mettrie writes, "animate bothes will...earlier Histoire naturelle de lame (1745), La Mettrie had argued against Descartes...
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A General Semantics Glossary (Part XVII)
Journal article by Robert P. Puula; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 54, 1997
Subjects: General semantics--Terminology, Semantics--Terminology
...Puula It is clear that there is but one substance in the world, and that man is its ultimate expression. Julien Offray de la Mettrie Uni-substantialism. You wont find "uni-substantialism" in the publications of Alfred Korzybski, nor of other...
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The Novel and the Machine in the Eighteenth Century
Journal article by Joseph Drury; Novel, Vol. 42, 2009
Subjects: Books, Novels, Reading, Technological change
...narrative work in the century of Julien Offray de La Mettries machine man? How do its operations...epigraph for his story Le Peau de chagrin. Taken in conjunction...carnal parts of their composition. La Mettrie argued that "the human body is...
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The Attempt to Understand Puerperal Fever in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries: the Influence of Inflammation Theory
Journal article by Christine Hallett; Medical History, Vol. 49, 2005
...perspective survived throughout the eighteenth century, and found its most extreme exposition in Lhomme machine of Julien Offray de la Mettrie.40 By the mid-eighteenth century, however, mechanical philosophy was already viewed by many as an overly simplistic...
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magazine articles on: La Mettrie Julien Offray De  - 3 results

 
 
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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
...stages of the Enlightenment, a minor French philosophe, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, wrote a book titled LHomme Machine. If humans are...are 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 newly...
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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 ideas...


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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...theory in Histoire naturelle de lame (1745). The protest...materialism was so strong that La Mettrie had to leave the country...hedonistic, are set forth in LArt de jouir (1751...


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