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Man a Machine - English
URL: http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/LaMettrie/Machine/

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1748): Etext.

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie - English
URL: http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/LaMettrie/

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French physician, atheist, mechanist and materialist; an infamous specimen of the Enlightenment.

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Eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie - English
URL: http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/LaMettrie/Eulogy/

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Julien Offray de la Mettrie was born in Saint Malo, on the twenty-fifth of December, 1709, to Julien Offray de la Mettrie and Marie Gaudron, who were living by a trade large enough to provide a good education for their son. They sent him to the college of Coutance to study the humanities; he went from there to Paris, to the college of Plessis; he studied his rhetoric at Caen, and since he had much genius and imagination, he won all the prizes for eloquence. He was a born orator and was passionately fond of poetry and belles-lettres, but his father thought he would earn more as an ecclesiastic than as a poet, and destined him for the church. He sent him, the following year, to the college of Plessis where he studied logic under M. Cordier, who was more a Jansenist than a logician.

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La Mettrie - Leben und Werk - German
URL: http://www.lsr-projekt.de/lm1.html

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Lamettrie nicht als mechanischer Materialist, sondern als (para)philosophischer Antipode der frz. Materialisten

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709 - 1751)
URL: http://www.pyrrhon.de/philos/lamettr.htm

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A short profile in German from Uwe Wiedemann's directory 'Philosophen und Logiker'.

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