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Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Born

in Saint-Malo, France

November 23, 1709

Died

November 11, 1751

Genre

Philosophy

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine. ...more

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	Man A Machine 3.37 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 1747 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man a Machine and Man a Plant 3.50 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1748 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Machine Man and Other Writings 3.41 avg rating — 63 ratings — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Discours Sur Le Bonheur 3.68 avg rating — 25 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wisdom of Pleasures: "The School of Voluptuousness" and "The Art of Enjoyment" by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Kirk Watson (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1751 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El combate por la felicidad: Séneca vs La Mettrie by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Seneca, Lucio Anneo La Mettrie 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Système d'Épicure 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hedonist Alternative: "Anti-Seneca" and Other Texts by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Kirk Watson (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El hombre maquina by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Lur Sotuela (Editor) 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Enlightened Machines: "Man Is a Machine" and Related Works by Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Kirk Watson (Goodreads Author) (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Man is so complicated a machine that it is impossible to get a clear idea of the machine beforehand, and hence impossible to define it. For this reason, all the investigations have been vain, which the greatest philosophers have made à priori, that is to to say, in so far as they use, as it were, the wings of the spirit. Thus it is only à posteriori or by trying to disentangle the soul from the organs of the body, so to speak, that one can reach the highest probability concerning man's own nature, even though one can not discover with certainty what his nature is.”
― Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Machine Man and Other Writings

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“Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.”
― Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man A Machine

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“It is imagination again which adds the piquant charm of voluptuousness to the tenderness of an amorous heart; which makes tenderness bud in the study of the philosopher and of the dusty pedant, which, in a word, creates scholars as well as orators and poets.”
― Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man A Machine

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