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Holistic Healing

Man a Machine

Julien Offray de La Mettrie and King of Prussia Frederick II

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Julien La Mettrie shocked Europe by declaring the human being nothing but a marvelous, self-winding machine. His notorious essay argues that mind and soul rise from matter and motion alone, sweeping past the pieties of his age. A foundational, still-provocative text of materialist philosophy. Confront the book that dared to mechanize the soul.

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30 chapters

  1. 1TABLE OF CONTENTS.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3FREDERIC THE GREAT’S EULOGY ON JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE.
  4. 4L’HOMME MACHINE.
  5. 5MAN A MACHINE.
  6. 6THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUL.
  7. 7CHAPTER II. CONCERNING MATTER.
  8. 8CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF MATTER.
  9. 9CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE MOVING FORCE OF MATTER.
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING THE SENSITIVE FACULTY OF MATTER.
  11. 11APPENDIX.
  12. 12LA METTRIE’S RELATION TO HIS PREDECESSORS AND TO HIS SUCCESSORS.
  13. 13I. The Historical Relation of La Mettrie to René Descartes (1596–1650).
  14. 14IIa. The Likeness of La Mettrie to the English Materialists, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Toland (1670–1721).
  15. 15b. The Relation of La Mettrie to an English Sensationalist: John Locke (1632–1704).
  16. 16IIIa. The Likeness, probable but unacknowledged, to La Mettrie, of the French Sensationalists, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780) and Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715–1771).
  17. 17b. The Likeness to La Mettrie of the French Materialist, Baron Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (1723–1789).
  18. 18OUTLINE OF LA METTRIE’S METAPHYSICAL DOCTRINE.

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