Philosophy · 1770
L'homme machine
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- First published
- 1748
- This copy printed
- 1770
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Full leather
- Condition
- Good — Honest wear and some foxing, sound and complete.
- Pages
- 215
About this work
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 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.
