Man a Machine
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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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- Voiez, disent-ils, les Spinosa, les Vanini, les Desbarreaux, les Boindin, Apôtres qui font plus d'honneur, que de tort au Déïsme![1]
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