The Wisdom of Pleasures: The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment - Julien Offray De La Mettrie - Books - - 9781730916687 - November 5, 2018
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Julien Offray De La Mettrie
The Wisdom of Pleasures: The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment

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He's known for his audacious claim in 'Man a Machine' that humans can be reduced to their mechanism: but La Mettrie wrote other books too. In these hidden gems, the most radical of all Enlightenment thinkers lays bare his hedonistic ideas. In a godless universe that seems to be engineered only around pleasure and pain, how should we act? Should we just give in to all-out debauchery as our destiny, or is there a nobler path?This is the first-ever English translation of these books, which were originally published in 1747 and 1751.

164 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 5, 2018
ISBN13 9781730916687
Pages 164
Dimensions 140 × 216 × 10 mm   ·   213 g
Language English  
Translator Watson, Kirk

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