La Mettrie

Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872201941
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first modern translation of the complete texts of La Mettrie's pioneering L'Homme machine and L'Homme plante, first published in 1747 and 1748, respectively, this volume also includes translations of the advertisement and dedication to L'Homme machine. Justin Leiber's introduction illuminates the radical thinking and advocacy of the passionate La Mettrie and provides cogent analysis of La Mettrie's relationship to such important philosophical figures as Descartes, Malebranche, and Locke, and of his lasting influence on the development of materialism, cognitive studies, linguistics, and other areas of intellectual inquiry.

Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521478496
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-04-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 an English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works translated into English, and Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.

Author : Kathleen Anne Wellman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Mettrie written by Kathleen Anne Wellman and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julien Offray de la Mettrie, best known as the author of L'Homme machine, appears as a minor character in most accounts of the Enlightenment. But in this intellectual biography by Kathleen Wellman, La Mettrie--physician-philosophe--emerges as a central figure whose medical approach to philosophical and moral issues had a profound influence on the period and its legacy. Wellman's study presents La Mettrie as an advocate of progressive medical theory and practice who consistently applied his medical concerns to the reform of philosophy, morals, and society. By examining his training with the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave, his satires lampooning the ignorance and venality of the medical profession, and his medical treatises on subjects ranging from vertigo to veneral disease, Wellman illuminates the medical roots of La Mettrie's philosophy. She shows how medicine encouraged La Mettrie to undertake an impiricist critique of the philosophical tradition and provided the foundation for a medical materialism that both shaped his understanding of the possibilities of moral and social reform and led him to espouse the cause of the philosophers. Elucidating the medical view of nature, human beings, and society that the Enlightenment and La Mettrie in particular bequethed to the modern world, La Mettrie makes an important contribution to our understanding of both that period and our own.

Author : Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Man a Machine written by Julien Offray de La Mettrie and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chris Nunn
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230552218
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De La Mettrie's Ghost written by Chris Nunn and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-10-07 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how we make choices. It is a compelling analysis of the nature of free will, drawing together evidence from chemistry, literature, politics, history and beyond. Psychiatrist Chris Nunn elegantly explores the revolutions in medicine, genetics, bioethics and neuroscience spurred by Julien de la Mettrie's 300-year-old tract Man the Machine. Nunn concludes that a mechanistic view of the human brain, though once fruitful, is now moribund. He proposes a powerful alternative: that stories, recorded in our memories throughout life, are the mediators of free choice. Nunn demonstrates how this original approach could reconcile the latest brain-imaging results and our seemingly contradictory intuition about decision making and responsibility.

Author : Aram Vartanian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878012
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LaMettrie's L'Homme Machine written by Aram Vartanian and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr. Vartanian discusses La Mettrie’s thesis, its sources, the place of the man-machine idea in the development of La Mettrie’s materialism, and its critical impact on the intellectual struggles of the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Aram Vartanian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691626079
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book LaMettrie's L'Homme Machine written by Aram Vartanian and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a classic of the French Enlightenment, L'Homme Machine has in the past been of equal interest to students of philosophy, science, and literature. The present edition offers the first established text, with extensive notes. In his introduction, Dr. Vartanian discusses La Mettrie's thesis, its sources, the place of the man-machine idea in the development of La Mettrie's materialism, and its critical impact on the intellectual struggles of the eighteenth century. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Julien Offray de la Mettrie
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781730916687
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of Pleasures written by Julien Offray de la Mettrie and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's known for his audacious claim in 'Man a Machine' that humans can be reduced to their mechanism: but La Mettrie wrote other books too. In these hidden gems, the most radical of all Enlightenment thinkers lays bare his hedonistic ideas. In a godless universe that seems to be engineered only around pleasure and pain, how should we act? Should we just give in to all-out debauchery as our destiny, or is there a nobler path?This is the first-ever English translation of these books, which were originally published in 1747 and 1751.

Author : Aram Vartanian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400877180
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diderot and Descartes written by Aram Vartanian and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment. In tracing the materialism of Diderot, La Mettrie, Buffon, and D'Holbach to its sources, it offers a fresh appraisal of the total influence of Descartes on the Enlightenment. Originally published in 1953. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Open Court written by Paul Carus and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: