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Man a Machine
by La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
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- en
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Creators: Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751), King of Prussia Frederick II (1712-1786) [Contributor], Mary Whiton Calkins (1863-1930) [Editor], and Gertrude Carman Bussey (1888-1961) [Translator] "Man a Machine" by Julien Offray de La Mettrie is a work of materialist philosophy first published in 1747. Extending Descartes' view of animals as automatons, La Mettrie argues that humans are also machines. He rejects the existence of a soul separate from matter, demonstrating how physical conditions—sleep, nutrition, drugs—directly affect what we call the mind. This controversial work denies dualism and proposes that body and soul are inseparably one. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading Level: Reading ease score: 64.3 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Rights: Public domain in the USA. Downloads: 1671