The Wisdom Of Pleasures : The School Of Voluptuousness And The Art Of Enjoyment

He's known for his audacious claim in 'Man a Machine' that humans can be reduced to their mechanism: but La Mettrie wrote other books too. In these hidden gems, the most radical of all Enlightenment thinkers lays bare his hedonistic ideas. In a godless universe that seems to be engineered only around pleasure and pain, how should we act? Should we just give in to all-out debauchery as our destiny, or is there a nobler path?This is the first-ever English translation of these books, which were originally published in 1747 and 1751.

• • Author: Julien Offray de la Mettrie, Kirk Watson
• • Publisher: Independently Published
• • Publication Date: Nov 05, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 69 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1730916686
• • ISBN-13: 9781730916687