Barebone's Parliament
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Barebone's Parliament When Cromwell expelled the
Rump on 20 April 1653, he had no plans for an alternative government. After deliberation, he decided to vest the supreme authority in a nominated assembly. He and his officers chose 144 members to represent all the English counties, and also Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The assembly met on 4 July and soon voted tocall itself a Parliament; it gets its familiarsobriquet from Praise‐God Barebone, leather‐seller, lay preacher, and MP for London. Barebone was not a typical member, however, for most of the House were gentlemen, and moderate men outnumbered religious and political radicals. But the latter strove for extreme changes in religion and the law, until the moderate majority, to Cromwell's relief, staged a walk‐out on 12 December and resigned their authority back into his hands.
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The materialist tropes of La Mettrie.(Julien Offray de La Mettrie's machine-man)
Magazine article from: Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; La Mettrie's machine-man, figure of determinist...functioning is anything but regular. As La Mettrie writes toward the beginning of his treatise...exactly how the human mechanism operates, La Mettrie intimates, we are forced to look outside...
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La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...for the Enlightenment. Doctor Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-1751) was a "crucial...model of the human spirit to La Mettrie's medical model, and even those philosophes who shared La Mettrie's materialism (d'Holbach...
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Can hope be disappointed? Contextualizing a Blochian question.
Magazine article from: symploke; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the human being, then, was meant to function as more than the mere material substance of L'Homme machine as Julien Offray La Mettrie in 1747 imagined the human to be, then this Kantian "Freiheit des Geistes," or freedom of mi
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Rights, Animal and Human.
Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life; 8/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...of the Enlightenment, a minor French philosophe, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, wrote a book titled L'Homme Machine. If humans...also machines, though less refined and complex. La Mettrie suggested, for instance, that the reason apes cannot...
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Animal attraction; Man and beast.(The paradoxical relationship between man and beast)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/15/2003; 700+ words
; ...that nobody ever stroked or patted a clock for striking the hour, in the way that animals are petted. And Julien Offray de la Mettrie, a biologist, wrote a satirical extension of Cartesianism, claiming again that people were machines too...
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A general semantics glossary (part XVII)
Magazine article from: et Cetera; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; It is clear that there is but one substance in the world, and that man is its ultimate expression. Julien Offray de la Mettrie uni-substantialism. You won't find "uni-substantialism" in the publications of Alfred Korzybski, nor...
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A general semantics glossary (Part XVII).(Lexicon)
Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; It is clear that there is but one substance in the world, and that man is its ultimate expression. Julien Offray de la Mettrie Uni-substantialism. You won't find "uni-substantialism" in the publications of Alfred Korzybski, nor...
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The Book of Dead Philosophers BOOKS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/4/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...Diogenes, who disdained fleshly pleasures and was said by some to have committed suicide by holding his breath; Julien Offray de La Mettrie, atheist and hedonist, who died after eating large amounts of truffled pte; and Ludwig Wittgenstein, who...
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Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Julien Offray de La Mettrie The French physician and philosopher Julien Offrayde La Mettrie (1709-1751) is best known for his "Man a Machine," an incisive and witty exposition of his theory of the dependence of mind on body. The son of a...
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La Mettrie, Julien Offray De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
La Mettrie, Julien Offray De ( b . Saint-Malo, France, 19...him was decisive. From 1734 on, La Mettrie practiced medicine in the Saint-Malo...this offense against orthodoxy, La Mettrie ’ s professional ability was...
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work and the body
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...reducing them to physical interactions of springs, levers, molecules or, most recently, genes. In 1748, Julien Offray de la Mettrie conceptualized the human body as ‘a machine which winds its own springs.’ Seeking to...
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Philosophes
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...author of Essai sur l'origine des connaissances humaines (1746; An essay on the origin of human knowledge). Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709 – 1751) developed sensationalism into a more radical and atheistic materialism in L'homme...
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