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- W2482306670 abstract "La Mettrie's L'Homme-machine has long been misread as a statement of mechanistic materialism, for La Mettrie was interested in living, organic bodies and used machine metaphors at most heuristically. Indeed, there may be no such thing as mechanistic materialism, at least in the eighteenth century. La Mettrie's materialism is one of animate matter. In his Anti-Seneque, ou le Souverain bien, which is a few years posterior to L Homme-machine and the source of much of the opprobrium associated with his work, La Mettrie defends a particularly radical brand of 'modern Epicureanism': hedonism. I argue for a coherent theoretical connection between La Mettrie's materialism and his (im)moral work, under the aegis of Epicureanism. La Mettrie is not a materialist about mind and body and an Epicurean about ethics understood as the pursuit of pleasure. Rather, he is what I term a 'medical Epicurean' (like Gassendi and Lamy) for whom an understanding of animate bodies applies equally to metaphysics and to ethics. As he asks in the Anti-Seneque, if man were not a machine, why would we need doctors?" @default.
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- W2482306670 title "A happiness fit for organic bodies: La Mettrie's medical Epicureanism" @default.
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