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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...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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...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...
...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...
...and actual: the machine-like human body (as in Julien Offray de La Mettries notion of man as machine), the "Dutch silk-mill...New York: Macmillan, 1966), pp. 31-9, 31. (40) Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man a Machine and Man a Plant, trans. Richard...
...27-57; Le Chevalier de Jaucourt, "Langage," LEncyclopedie (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann, 1966) 9: 242-243; Julien Offray de La Mettrie, LHomme machine (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1960) 162-164; Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, Traite elementaire de chimie...
...philosophy of Pierre Maine de Biran or perhaps his contemporary, Julien Offray La Mettrie, who announced in the first...p. 175). 17 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, LHomme machine (Paris...
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...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...
...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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