Contributions

  • Bussey, Gertrude Carman, 1888-1961. - Contributor
  • Frederick II, King of Prussia, 1712-1786. - Contributor

Publication

1970 - Open Court, La Salle, Ill, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

54,000 words, Guess

Page Count

216 pages

Identifiers

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Classifications

  • LCCB2063 .M3 1970?

Alternate Titles

  • The natural history of the soul.
  • Frederic the Great's eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie.

Description

Man a Machine (French: L'homme Machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1748. In this work, La Mettrie extends Descartes' argument that animals were mere automatons or machines to human beings, denying the existence of the soul as a substance separate from matter.

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