La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 1709-1751 creator Frederick II, King of Prussia 1712-1786 Calkins, Mary Whiton 1863-1930 Bussey, Gertrude Carman 1888-1961 text utu 2016 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Man a Machine" by Julien Offray de La Mettrie is a work of materialist philosophy first published in 1747. Extending Descartes' view of animals as automatons, La Mettrie argues that humans are also machines. He rejects the existence of a soul separate from matter, demonstrating how physical conditions—sleep, nutrition, drugs—directly affect what we call the mind. This controversial work denies dualism and proposes that body and soul are inseparably one. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_a_Machine Release date is 2016-05-16 Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net/ for Project Gutenberg (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Original publication data not identified Materialism Mind and body Physiology -- Early works to 1800 B Original publication data not identified 13004432 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52090 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52090 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134212.0 52090