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''[[Man a Machine]]'' (French '''L'homme machine''') is a work of philosophy by the 18th-century [[France|French]] physician and philosopher [[Julien Offray de La Mettrie]], first published in 1748. In this work, La Mettrie extends [[Descartes]]' argument that animals were mere [[automaton]]s or machines to human beings, denying the existence of the soul as a substance separate from matter. ''[[Man a Machine]]'' (French '''L'homme machine''') is a work of philosophy by the 18th-century [[France|French]] physician and philosopher [[Julien Offray de La Mettrie]], first published in 1748. In this work, La Mettrie extends [[Descartes]]' argument that animals were mere [[automaton]]s or machines to human beings, denying the existence of the soul as a substance separate from matter.
-The book led the [[materialist]] charge. +The book led the [[materialist]] charge by rejecting [[Descartes#Dualism|Cartesian dualism of mind and body]], and proposed the metaphor of the human being as machine.
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Man a Machine (1747) by Julien Offray de La Mettrie (edition shown 1750)
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Man a Machine (French L'homme machine) is a work of philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1748. In this work, La Mettrie extends Descartes' argument that animals were mere automatons or machines to human beings, denying the existence of the soul as a substance separate from matter.

The book led the materialist charge by rejecting Cartesian dualism of mind and body, and proposed the metaphor of the human being as machine.

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