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Man a Machine

work by La Mettrie
Also known as: “L’Homme-machine”

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application of materialism and Cartesianism

  • Epicurus
    In materialism: Modern materialism

    …appropriately titled L’Homme machine (1747; Man a Machine, applied Descartes’s view about animals to human beings. Denis Diderot, chief editor of the 18th-century Encyclopédie, supported a broadly materialist outlook by considerations drawn from physiology, embryology, and the study of heredity; and his friend

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