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  Julien Offray de La Mettrie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
La Mettrie has been called the Aristippus of modern materialism.
Sein Leben und seine Werke (1900); F. Picavet, "La Mettrie et la critique allemande", in Compte rendu des séances de l'Acad.
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 Julien Offray de La Mettrie Biography / Biography of Julien Offray de La Mettrie Main Biography
The son of a tradesman, Julien de La Mettrie was born in Saint-Malo in Brittany on Dec. 25, 1709.
La Mettrie's Parisian sojourn in 1742 secured for him a commission as physician to the troops of the Duc de Gramont.
La Mettrie was required by the regiment chaplain to relinquish his post with the army and then made to leave France.
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 Mettrie: Man a Machine.html
Julien Offray de la Mettrie was born in Saint Malo, on the 25th of December, 1709.
La Mettrie dismisses this notion arguing that there is no reason to believe that human beings have any greater sense of right and wrong than animals.
La Mettrie notes that whilst it is not possible to prove the nonexistence of god, any such question, (along with any notions as to the nature of immortality) are so far removed from our experience as to be meaningless and best forgotten.
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 The 18th Century
La Mettrie was born in Brittany, in the town of Saint-Malo.
In articulating this point, La Mettrie went far beyond the static mechanism of Descartes to conceive of the living machine as a purposive, autonomous, and dynamic system.
Although vilified in his own time, La Mettrie's often unacknowledged influence continued to be felt for many years within French intellectual circles.
serendip.brynmawr.edu /Mind/18th.html   (595 words)

  
 Chapter 10 Excerpt 2: Mechanism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Two are particularly important, Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Jean George Cabanis.
  La Mettrie was born in France to a well-to-do family and received a good education, first in the humanities and then in rhetoric.
La Mettrie, L'art de jouir (1751) in Oeuvres Philosophiques.
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 La Mettrie, Julien Offroy de --  Encyclopædia Britannica
An industrial and trade city in eastern Spain, Castellón de la Plana is situated 40 miles (64 kilometers) north of Valencia on a fertile plain near the Mediterranean coast.
The Roman de la Rose (Romance of the Rose) was one of the most popular French poems of the late medieval period of European history.
One of the masterpieces of French literature, the satirical and somewhat bitter Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec avec les caractères ou les moeurs de ce siècle (Characters, or Manners of the Age, with the Characters of Theophrastus [sic]), was written by Jean de La Bruyère.
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 LA METTRIE, (J.O.) DE., Oeuvres philosophiques. Nouvelle édition, corrigée et augmentée.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His outlook, however, was more vitalistic than mechanistic, since it attributed to matter the capacity of sensation and feeling-indeed all the powers that were hitherto attributed to the soul.
La Mettrie's works were severely prosecuted in France and the author took refuge in Holland, where he also raised opposition.
'La Mettrie's whole concern with pathology indicates a liberal and reformist attitude in that age of generally illiberal and disordered institutions' (R.J. White, The Anti-Philosophers.
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 Julien Offray De La Mettrie, Man A Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Mettrie locates the failing of the "greatest philosophers" in their imagining the soul as distinct and before the body.
Instead, if one is to begin to understand "man," one must accept the messy complexities of body and soul as machine first, and then try to disentangle the two.
Of course, Mettrie admits to the impossibility of this endeavor, though, that is, perhaps, exactly the discovery he wants to describe.
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Système nouveau de la nature et de la communication des substances, aussi bien que de l'union qu'il y a entre l'âme et le corps.
Eclaircissement du nouveau sisteme de la communication des substances, pour servir de réponse à ce qui en a esté dit dans le Journal du 12.
Vartanian, A. Julien Offray De La Mettrie (1709-1751).
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 La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings - Cambridge University Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709—51), author of Machine Man (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succès de scandale in his own time.
It was however a serious, if polemical, attempt to provide an explanation of the workings of the human body and mind in purely material terms and to show that thought was the product of the workings of the brain alone.
This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie’s other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time, and Ann Thomson’s introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.
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 La Mettrie, Julien Offray de on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. Condillac: language, thought, and morality in the man and animal debate.
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 Frederic the Great, "Eulogy on Julien Offray De La Mettrie"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
If a skillful astronomer proves, in spite of Joshua, that the earth and all the celestial globes revolve around the sun, one must wither calculate better than he, or admit that the earth revolves.
Frederic's defense of the dead La Mettrie implicates mechanism in an almost Kuhnian history of scientific discovery.
The battle between the theologians and scientists enforces a new concept of the soul; if the spirit is located in and is affected by the body, theology no longer has a place in the debate.
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 AllRefer.com - Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Julien Offray de La Mettrie (Philosophy, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Julien Offray de La Mettrie[zhUlyaN´ OfrA´ du lA metrE´] Pronunciation Key, 1709–51, French physician and philosopher.
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 Referencias bibliográficas   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Leibniz, G.W. Système nouveau de la nature et de la communication des substances, aussi bien que de l'union qu'il y a entre l'âme et le corps.
Leibniz, G.W. Eclaircissement du nouveau sisteme de la communication des substances, pour servir de réponse à ce qui en a esté dit dans le Journal du 12.
En la actualidad sus investigaciones históricas se centran en el desarrollo de la psicología clínica americana.
platea.pntic.mec.es /~macruz/mente/descartes/ref.htm   (937 words)

  
 Alibris: Julien Offray De La Mettrie
by Thomas, Ann (Editor), and Thomson, Ann, and La Mettrie, Julien Offray De A fully annotated edition and new translation of this important eighteenth-century materialist treatise.
La voluptuosidad abandona con La Mettrie su clandestinidad filosofica para constituirse en la piedra de toque de una educacion sentimental orientada siempre por la libertad, a resguardo de las retoricas tanaticas que alberga la moral tradicional.
Segun el autor del Discurso sobre la felicidad, la filosofia revela el ideal ascetico y el poder...
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 Julien Offray de La Mettrie
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709–51, French physician and philosopher.
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de (1709-1751) (The Hutchinson Encyclopedia)
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 P1305Exams2000
What are the characteristic views and activities of the philosophes such as Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Maupertius, La Mettrie, etc.?
What is unusual, for his time, in La Mettrie's views about humans, religion, animals, sexuality, and punishment?
What specific proposals does La Mettrie make for an experiment that might bridge the gap?
www.hfac.uh.edu /phil/leiber/P13053rdExam2004.htm   (478 words)

  
 philosophy: philosophers: l: la-mettrie-julien-offray-de Spirit And Sky
Frederic the Great's Eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie.
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi's transcription of La Mettrie's famous work Man a Machine, in addition to some notes on other thinkers' reactions to La Mettrie.
Full English text of La Mettrie's 1748 classic, in a single page.
spiritandsky.com /philosophy/philosophers/l/la-mettrie-julien-offray-de   (81 words)

  
 PricewaterhouseCoopers: Luxembourg: About Us: Press Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Laurent de La Mettrie, Associé, et Michel Lambion, Directeur au sein du département fiscal
Laurent de La Mettrie et Michel Lambion, respectivement Associé et Directeur au sein du département fiscal
L’accord sur la fiscalité de l’épargne : quel impact pour l’industrie des fonds ?
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 La Mettrie ... - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Amazon.ca: Books: La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Man a Machine (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succès de scandale in his own time.
This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time.
Top of Page : La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings
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 Technical Training versus Education
Knowledge of that description has been the forerunner of all modern technical science.
It is the knowledge of Diderot, a D’Alembert, a La Mettrie, who declared all philosophic thought to be null and void, who in works such as Histoire naturelle de l’ame and L’homme machine advocated an empiricism in which everything is explained in terms of casual reflexes between brain and body.
The thought of Hume, their English contemporary, is stronger and finer, but his doctrine of the association of ideas, and the principles of all possible associations (he assumes similarity, contiguity in time and space, and cause or effect) lead to the same result (Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding and An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding).
www.edocere.org /articles/technical_training_vs_education.htm   (795 words)

  
 La Mettrie within the project LSR (English)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Julien Offray de La Mettrie - his life, work, impact
Introduction to La Mettrie: Über das Glück (On Happiness - or Anti-Seneca)
Introduction to La Mettrie: Die Kunst, Wollust zu empfinden (The art of experiencing sensuality)
www.lsr-projekt.de /poly/enlm.html   (102 words)

  
 La Mettrie, Julien Offray De - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-51, French physician and philosopher.
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