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Author: Jean Baptiste de BOYER (Marquis d'Argens.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Man a Machine. Translated from the French of the Marquis d'Argens [or rather from “L'Homme machine” by J. J. Offray de la Mettrie].
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Author: Jean Baptiste de BOYER (Marquis d'Argens.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
The British Library General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1975
Author: British LibraryGeneral Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Auction Catalogs, Hodgson's Rooms
Author: Sotheby Parke Bernet & CoPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Man a Machine
Author: Julien Offray de La MettriePublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Man a Machine is a book on philosophy by Julien Offray de La Mettrie. The author was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment movement.
Man a Machine
Author: Jean Baptiste de BOYER (Marquis d'Argens.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Man a Machine
Author: Julien Offray de La MettriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Materialism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Includes Frederick the Great's "Eulogy" on La Mettrie's "The Natural History of the Soul."
Materialism: A Historico-Philosophical Introduction
Author: Charles T. WolfePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319248200
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book provides an overview of key features of (philosophical) materialism, in historical perspective. It is, thus, a study in the history and philosophy of materialism, with a particular focus on the early modern and Enlightenment periods, leading into the 19th and 20th centuries. For it was in the 18th century that the word was first used by a philosopher (La Mettrie) to refer to himself. Prior to that, ‘materialism’ was a pejorative term, used for wicked thinkers, as a near-synonym to ‘atheist’, ‘Spinozist’ or the delightful ‘Hobbist’. The book provides the different forms of materialism, particularly distinguished into claims about the material nature of the world and about the material nature of the mind, and then focus on materialist approaches to body and embodiment, selfhood, ethics, laws of nature, reductionism and determinism, and overall, its relationship to science. For materialism is often understood as a kind of philosophical facilitator of the sciences, and the author want to suggest that is not always the case. Materialism takes on different forms and guises in different historical, ideological and scientific contexts as well, and the author wants to do justice to that diversity. Figures discussed include Lucretius, Hobbes, Gassendi, Spinoza, Toland, Collins, La Mettrie, Diderot, d’Holbach and Priestley; Büchner, Bergson, J.J.C. Smart and D.M. Armstrong.
Marx’s Ecology
Author: John Bellamy FosterPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583673806
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Progress requires the conquest of nature. Or does it? This startling new account overturns conventional interpretations of Marx and in the process outlines a more rational approach to the current environmental crisis. Marx, it is often assumed, cared only about industrial growth and the development of economic forces. John Bellamy Foster examines Marx's neglected writings on capitalist agriculture and soil ecology, philosophical naturalism, and evolutionary theory. He shows that Marx, known as a powerful critic of capitalist society, was also deeply concerned with the changing human relationship to nature. Marx's Ecology covers many other thinkers, including Epicurus, Charles Darwin, Thomas Malthus, Ludwig Feuerbach, P. J. Proudhon, and William Paley. By reconstructing a materialist conception of nature and society, Marx's Ecology challenges the spiritualism prevalent in the modern Green movement, pointing toward a method that offers more lasting and sustainable solutions to the ecological crisis.