Man A Machine - 9781718684317

Man a 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 were mere automatons or machines to human beings, denying the existence of the soul as a substance separate from matter.

• | Author: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Gertrude Carman Bussey
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: May 03, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 32 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1718684312
• | ISBN-13: 9781718684317