I reduce to two the systems of philosophy which deal with m… - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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I reduce to two the systems of philosophy which deal with man's soul. The first and older system is materialism; the second is spiritualism.

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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[E]ither everything is illusion, nature as well as revelation, or experience alone can explain faith.

The Christian Scholastics... might have shown that God Himself said that He had "imprinted an active principle in the elements of matter (Gen. i; Is. lxvi).

If there is a revelation, it can not then contradict nature.

I reduce to two the systems of philosophy which deal with man's soul. The first and older system is materialism; the second is spiritualism. - Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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