Article ID: CBB001024805

La Mettrie's Soul: Vertigo, Fever, Massacre, and The Natural History (2009)

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La Mettrie's materialist and monistic philosophy is that of a military doctor, knowing what dysentery did to his own mind, watching his regiment destroyed at Fontenoy, running French field hospitals in Flanders. He learned brain science in the injuries of his fellows. He knew pain and that man's main positive drive was sex. He despised the prudish hypocrisies of feeble materialists like Diderot and Voltaire. His brutal military life and his hedonism made him the most coherent monist against Cartesian dualism. His study of vertigo is sound clinical medicine, which well accords with one trend in today's medical practice.

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Authors & Contributors
Kaitaro, Timo
Wolfe, Charles T.
Thomson, Ann
Wunderlich, Falk
Bourdin, Jean-Claude
Eigenauer, John D.
Journals
Intellectual History Review
British Journal for the History of Philosophy
Corpus: Revue de Philosophie
Gesnerus
Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Science in Context
Publishers
Mimesis
Oxford University Press
Presses Universitaires de France
Syracuse University
Concepts
Materialism
Psychology
Mechanism; mechanical philosophy
Medicine
Philosophy
Philosophy of science
People
La Mettrie, Julien Offray de
Diderot, Denis
Priestley, Joseph
Kant, Immanuel
Holbach, Paul Henri Dietrich, Baron d'
Descartes, René
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
Enlightenment
17th century
20th century
Places
France
Europe
Germany
Institutions
Université de Montpellier
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