Article ID: CBB000050925

L'homme machine, mythe ou métaphore? (1988)

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Description Argues that La Mettrie's homme machine is not the embodiment of “mechanistic materialism”. “Far from constructing a mechanistic model of man, La Mettrie's sole aim is to demonstrate that a dynamic matter can account for all human activity.”


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Authors & Contributors
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
Wellman, Kathleen Anne
Didier Contadini
Verbeek, Theo
Vartanian, Aram
Sutter, Alex
Concepts
Human physiology
Materialism
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Medicine
Psychology
Philosophy
Time Periods
18th century
Enlightenment
Places
France
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