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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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There comes up another difficulty which more nearly concerns our vanity: namely, the impossibility of our conceiving this property [the faculty of feeling] as a dependence or attribute of matter.

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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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