Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has bec… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has become an author, as they became beasts of burden.

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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About 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. He is best known for his work L'homme machine ().

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Alternative Names: La Mettrie

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If one's organism is... the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it...

[W]hy should we divide the sensitive principle which thinks in man? ...For a thing that is divided can no longer without absurdity be regarded as indivisible.

[T]he, diverse states of the soul are always correlative with those of the body.

Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has become an author, as they became beasts of burden. - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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