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Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the Glossary

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (November 23, 1709 – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment.^[1]

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18th-century atheists
French atheism activists
French expatriates in the Dutch Republic
French materialists
People from Saint-Malo

Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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André Noël (chef)

André Noël, born in Périgueux in 1726 and died in Berlin on May 4, 1801, was a French chef in the service of King Frederick II of Prussia.

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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet (17 December 1706 – 10 September 1749) was a French natural philosopher and mathematician from the early 1730s until her death due to complications during childbirth in 1749. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Émilie du Châtelet are 18th-century French philosophers.

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Baron d'Holbach

Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach (8 December 1723 – 21 January 1789), known as d'Holbach, was a Franco-German philosopher, encyclopedist and writer, who was a prominent figure in the French Enlightenment. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Baron d'Holbach are 18th-century French male writers, 18th-century French philosophers, 18th-century atheists, atheist philosophers, Enlightenment philosophers, French atheism activists and French materialists.

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Behaviorism

Behaviorism (also spelled behaviourism) is a systematic approach to understand the behavior of humans and other animals.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Cartesianism

Cartesianism is the philosophical and scientific system of René Descartes and its subsequent development by other seventeenth century thinkers, most notably François Poullain de la Barre, Nicolas Malebranche and Baruch Spinoza.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Christiaan Huygens

Christiaan Huygens, Lord of Zeelhem, (also spelled Huyghens; Hugenius; 14 April 1629 – 8 July 1695) was a Dutch mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor who is regarded as a key figure in the Scientific Revolution.

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Cognition

Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".

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Cognitive science

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary, scientific study of the mind and its processes.

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Cybernetics

Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular processes such as feedback systems where outputs are also inputs.

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Damnatio memoriae

Damnatio memoriae is a modern Latin phrase meaning "condemnation of memory", indicating that a person is to be excluded from official accounts.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot (5 October 171331 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Denis Diderot are 18th-century French male writers, 18th-century atheists, atheist philosophers, Enlightenment philosophers, French materialists and members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

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Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable.

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Enculturation

Enculturation is the process by which people learn the dynamics of their surrounding culture and acquire values and norms appropriate or necessary to that culture and its worldviews.

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Ethics

Ethics is the philosophical study of moral phenomena.

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Fever

Fever or pyrexia in humans is a body temperature above the normal range due to an increase in the body's temperature set point in the hypothalamus.

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François Picavet

François Picavet (17 May 1851, Petit-Fayt, Nord – 23 May 1921, Paris) was a French philosopher, translator and authority on Kant.

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François-Joseph Hunauld

François-Joseph Hunauld (24 February 1701 – 15 December 1742) was a French anatomist born in Châteaubriant.

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Frederick the Great

Frederick II (Friedrich II.; 24 January 171217 August 1786) was the monarch of Prussia from 1740 until 1786.

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French Guards Regiment

The French Guards (Régiment des Gardes françaises) were an elite infantry regiment of the French Royal Army.

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French materialism

French materialism is the name given to a handful of French 18th-century philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment, many of them clustered around the salon of Baron d'Holbach.

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Friedrich Albert Lange

Friedrich Albert Lange (28 September 1828 – 21 November 1875) was a German philosopher and sociologist.

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Gertrude C. Bussey

Gertrude Carman Bussey (January 13, 1888 – March 12, 1961) was an American academic philosopher and activist for women's rights, civil liberties, and peace.

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Guillaume Lamy

Guillaume Lamy (1644–1683) was a French physician best known for his sympathies with Epicurean philosophy, and for his influence on materialists such as La Mettrie.

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Hedonism

Hedonism refers to the prioritization of pleasure in one's lifestyle, actions, or thoughts.

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Herman Boerhaave

Herman Boerhaave (31 December 1668 – 23 September 1738Underwood, E. Ashworth. "Boerhaave After Three Hundred Years." The British Medical Journal 4, no. 5634 (1968): 820–25..) was a Dutch botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician of European fame.

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History of Materialism and Critique of Its Present Importance

History of Materialism and Critique of Its Present Importance (Geschichte des Materialismus und Kritik seiner Bedeutung in der Gegenwart) is a philosophical work by Friedrich Albert Lange, originally written in German and published in October 1865 (although the year of publication was given as 1866).

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Jansenism

Jansenism was a 17th- and 18th-century theological movement within Roman Catholicism, primarily active in France, which arose as an attempt to reconcile the theological concepts of free will and divine grace in response to certain developments in the Roman Catholic Church, but later developing political and philosophical aspects in opposition to royal absolutism.

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Jardin des plantes

The Jardin des Plantes (French for "Garden of the Plants"), also known as the Jardin des Plantes de Paris when distinguished from other jardins des plantes in other cities, is the main botanical garden in France.

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John Locke

John Locke (29 August 1632 – 28 October 1704) was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "father of liberalism". Julien Offray de La Mettrie and John Locke are Enlightenment philosophers.

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Julien Le Roy

Julien Le Roy (1686-1759) was a major 18th-century Parisian clockmaker and watchmaker.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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Kingdom of Prussia

The Kingdom of Prussia (Königreich Preußen) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918.

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Leiden

Leiden (in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands.

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Lycée Saint-Louis

The Lycée Saint-Louis is a selective post-secondary school located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, in the Latin Quarter.

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Man a Machine

Man a Machine (French: L'homme machine) is a work of materialist philosophy by the 18th-century French physician and philosopher Julien Offray de La Mettrie, first published in 1747.

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Mary Whiton Calkins

Mary Whiton Calkins (30 March 1863 – 26 February 1930) was an American philosopher and psychologist, whose work informed theory and research of memory, dreams and the self.

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Masterpiece

A masterpiece, magnum opus, or paren) in modern use is a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or a work of outstanding creativity, skill, profundity, or workmanship. Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced to obtain membership of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.

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Materialism

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions of material things.

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Mechanism (philosophy)

Mechanism is the belief that natural wholes (principally living things) are similar to complicated machines or artifacts, composed of parts lacking any intrinsic relationship to each other.

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Medical education

Medical education is education related to the practice of being a medical practitioner, including the initial training to become a physician (i.e., medical school and internship) and additional training thereafter (e.g., residency, fellowship, and continuing medical education).

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Michel Onfray

Michel Onfray (born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Michel Onfray are atheist philosophers, French atheism activists and French materialists.

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Mind–body problem

The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Philosophy of artificial intelligence

The philosophy of artificial intelligence is a branch of the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of computer science that explores artificial intelligence and its implications for knowledge and understanding of intelligence, ethics, consciousness, epistemology, and free will.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis

Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (5 June 1757 – 5 May 1808) was a French physiologist, freemason and materialist philosopher. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis are French materialists.

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Pierre Louis Maupertuis

Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698 – 27 July 1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Pierre Louis Maupertuis are 18th-century French male writers, 18th-century French philosophers, members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and people from Saint-Malo.

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Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.

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Psychology

Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior.

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Reductionism

Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.

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René Descartes

René Descartes (or;; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, widely considered a seminal figure in the emergence of modern philosophy and science. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and René Descartes are Enlightenment philosophers and French expatriates in the Dutch Republic.

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Richard Francis Talbot

Richard Francis Talbot (December 1710 – 12 March 1752) was a French soldier and diplomat of Irish descent.

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Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo (Gallo: Saent-Malô) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany.

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Stomach disease

Stomach diseases include gastritis, gastroparesis, Crohn's disease and various cancers.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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University of Paris

The University of Paris (Université de Paris), known metonymically as the Sorbonne, was the leading university in Paris, France, from 1150 to 1970, except for 1793–1806 during the French Revolution.

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University of Rennes

The University of Rennes is a public research university located in Rennes, Upper Brittany, France.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian. Julien Offray de La Mettrie and Voltaire are 18th-century French male writers, 18th-century French philosophers, Enlightenment philosophers and members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie

Also known as De La Mettrie, J. O. de la Mettrie, Julien La Mettrie, Julien Lamettrie, Julien Offray de Lamettrie, Julien Offroy de La Mettrie, Julien de La Mettrie, La Mettrie.

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18th-century atheists

French atheism activists

French expatriates in the Dutch Republic

French materialists

People from Saint-Malo

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