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Man a Machine

Man a Machine (French: L'homme machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1747. In this work, de La Mettrie extends Descartes' argument that animals are mere automatons, or machines, to human beings. He denies dualism and the existence of the soul as a…

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Materialism in relation to evolution and quantum mechanism

Karl PopperEvolutionQuantum mechanicsLiving matterIndeterminism
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FrenchMaterialistFrenchPhilosopherJulien Offray de La Mettrie
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Man a Machine → Bussey, English, Full, Gertrude, L'homme, Machine, Man, Mary Whiton Calkins, Open Court French-English, Project Gutenberg, Review

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Man a Machinerelated to External linksMan0.60section
Man a Machinerelated to External linksMachine0.60section
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