Man a Machine

About this eBook

Author

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de, 1709-1751

Credits

Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

B: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion

Subject

Physiology -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 52090

Release Date

May 16, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS.
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.FREDERIC THE GREAT’S EULOGY ON JULIEN OFFRAY DE LA METTRIE.
5. 5.L’HOMME MACHINE.
6. 6.MAN A MACHINE.
7. 7.THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SOUL. — CHAPTER II. CONCERNING MATTER. — CHAPTER III. CONCERNING THE EXTENSION OF MATTER. — CHAPTER V. CONCERNING THE MOVING FORCE OF MATTER. — CHAPTER VI. CONCERNING THE SENSITIVE FACULTY OF MATTER.
8. 8.APPENDIX.
9. 9.LA METTRIE’S RELATION TO HIS PREDECESSORS AND TO HIS SUCCESSORS. — I. The Historical Relation of La Mettrie to René Descartes (1596–1650). — II a . The Likeness of La Mettrie to the English Materialists, Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and John Toland (1670–1721). — b. The Relation of La Mettrie to an English Sensationalist: John Locke (1632–1704). — III a . The Likeness, probable but unacknowledged, to La Mettrie, of the French Sensationalists, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac (1715–1780) and Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715–1771). — b. The Likeness to La Mettrie of the French Materialist, Baron Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach (1723–1789).
10. 10.OUTLINE OF LA METTRIE’S METAPHYSICAL DOCTRINE.
11. 11.NOTES. 1 — NOTE ON FREDERICK THE GREAT’S EULOGY. — NOTES ON MAN A MACHINE. — NOTES ON THE EXTRACTS FROM “ L’HISTOIRE NATURELLE DE L’AME .”
12. 12.WORKS CONSULTED AND CITED IN THE NOTES.
13. 13.INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES.
14. 14.Colophon — Availability — Encoding — Revision History — External References — Corrections

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