{"id":4004,"date":"2025-09-30T02:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apeterman.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/phl202f25\/?page_id=4004"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T16:18:21","slug":"bibliography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apeterman.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/phl202f25\/julien-offray-de-la-mettrie\/bibliography\/","title":{"rendered":"Julien Offray de la Mettrie Bibliography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-regular-font-size wp-elements-08f16895af4de48da1ef5a44cb40fc46\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:700\">Primary Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f3c1f5dd350ceeb6e83725527b9a7099\">Offray de La Mettrie, Julien , and Fran\u00e7ois Joseph Hunauld. <em>Histoire Naturelle de L\u2019ame \u201cTreatise on the Soul.\u201d<\/em> 1745. Legare Street Press, 18 July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0262ff4d197f40f384a0f937cafcb126\">Offray de La Mettrie, Julien. <em>Politique Du M\u00e9decin de Machiavel, Ou Le Chemin de La Fortune Ouvert Aux M\u00e9decins<\/em>. 1746.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60da6fde37c6eaabc830b44a46616f70\">Offray de La Mettrie , Julien. <em>La Facult\u00e9 Veng\u00e9e<\/em>. 1747.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-45f9ad6dbc579181ece0415284339776\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Kind, Frederick, and Julien Offray de La Mettrie. <em>Man a Machine<\/em>. 1747. New York, Classics Of Psychiatry &amp; Behavioral Sciences Library, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-517aa88bebf6d43c98c31c77c29f2739\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Offray de La Mettrie, Julien. <em>Man a Machine ; And, Man a Plant<\/em>. 1748. Hackett Publishing, 1 Jan. 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ff80e02b50906cd953de882d059f178f\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Offray de La Mettrie, Julien . <em>The Wisdom of Pleasures: \u201cthe School of Voluptuousness\u201d and \u201cthe Art of Enjoyment.\u201d<\/em> 1751. Translated by Kirk Watson, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ca59b4baa56f9b1926bfa1bb459b608b\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\">Offray de La Mettrie, Julien . Auteur du texte. <em>Oeuvres philosophiques. Par Julien Offray de La Mettrie.<\/em> J. Nourse (Londres), 1751.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b7249f8762ac2c2054d2169942a03bc0\">Offray De La Mettrie, Julien. Discours Sur Le Bonheur. 1748.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-46611599618a90d464ce2c03389494a5\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Secondary Sources: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rochester.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/fulldisplay?docid=alma9911032883405216&amp;context=L&amp;vid=01ROCH_INST:UR01&amp;lang=en&amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&amp;tab=Everything&amp;query=any,contains,La%20Mettrie:%20Medicine,%20Philosophy,%20and%20Enlightenment&amp;offset=0\">Wellman, Kathleen Anne.&nbsp;La Mettrie: <em>Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment. <\/em>Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Kathleen Wellman offers an intellectual biography of La Mettrie and explains the medical component of La Mettrie&#8217;s philosophy. I will use this account to explain the medicinal motivation behind La Mettrie&#8217;s extreme materialistic views. I hope this publication can help expand my view of La Mettrie not just as a philosopher, but a scientific researcher and physicist as well. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/2708260?searchText=&amp;searchUri=&amp;ab_segments=&amp;searchKey=&amp;refreqid=fastly-default%3Ad399eba4374d52aed8edb97ee403ed5c&amp;initiator=recommender&amp;seq=1\">Campbell, Blair.<em> \u201cLa Mettrie: The Robot and the Automaton.\u201d <\/em>Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 31, no. 4, Oct. 1970, p. 555, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/2708260.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blair Campbell argues that La Mettrie should be seen as a philosophe who sought to solve social and ethical problems using scientific ideas. Campbell tracks La Mettrie&#8217;s belief of what guides mankind is life, using several of his publications throughout his life. This article helps narrate his change in life views and will guide me as I approach his readings, specifically &#8220;Man A Machine&#8221; and &#8220;The Wisdom of Pleasures: &#8220;the School of Voluptuousness&#8221; and &#8220;the Art of Enjoyment&#8221;. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theitalianlawjournal.it\/data\/uploads\/7-italj-1-2021\/513%20PIAZZA.pdf\">Marco Piazza . Nietzsche, La Mettrie, and the Question of the Legitimacy of Punishment: A Hidden Source? 2021, theitalianlawjournal.it\/data\/uploads\/7-italj-1-2021\/513%20PIAZZA.pdf. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Marco Piazza focuses on La Mettrie&#8217;s view on the morality of punishment in society and how his thoughts were echoed decades later by Nietzsche. Their shared view on determinism and how morality in society functions is fascinating because La Mettrie&#8217;s thoughts were regarded harshly by philosophes in his time due to his materialist view of life. I will use this article to explore how the determinism aspect of La Mettrie&#8217;s works evolve over time and his influences on future philosophers. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJulien Offroy de La Mettrie | Research Starters | EBSCO Research.\u201d&nbsp;<em>EBSCO<\/em>, 2022, www.ebsco.com\/research-starters\/history\/julien-offroy-de-la-mettrie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This Website details a summarized chronology of La Mettrie&#8217;s life. I will use to to write the biography<\/em>. <em>This source can also be used as context to understand the opinions surrounding La Mettrie&#8217;s works. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200c\u201cJulien Offroy de La Mettrie | French Physician and Philosopher.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em>, www.britannica.com\/biography\/Julien-Offroy-de-La-Mettrie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This website is another source for me to compile a bibliography of La Mettrie&#8217;s life. It offers general facts, which will be useful in reconstructing the events of his life<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200cExclusive 3:16 Interview With Julien Offray de La Mettrie&#8221;. <em>3:16<\/em>, 2023, www.3-16am.co.uk\/blog\/exclusive-3-16-interview-with-julien-offray-de-la-mettrie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u200cThis article helps paraphrase La Mettrie&#8217;s Man a Machine and put his words into a  contemporary context. This is very helpful in aiding me to understand some of La Mettrie&#8217;s more complex topics. I will use this to help me organize La Mettrie&#8217;s thoughts and connect them to contemporary thinking. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uzgalis, William. \u201cJohn Locke > Some Issues in Locke\u2019s Philosophy of Mind (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).\u201d <em>Stanford.edu<\/em>, 2015, plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/locke\/supplement.html.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This website helps outline the areas of controversy in Locke&#8217;s philosophy concerning the mind and the body. I will use this to compare Locke&#8217;s Cartesian Dualistic beliefs to La Mettrie&#8217;s materialistic ideas. This will be helpful for analyzing the extent to which Locke is a dualist and the potential argument that Locke could be see as a materialist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary Sources: Offray de La Mettrie, Julien , and Fran\u00e7ois Joseph Hunauld. Histoire Naturelle de L\u2019ame \u201cTreatise on the Soul.\u201d 1745. 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