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L'Homme-Machine (Maschine Mensch), 1748
Original: (fr) « L'homme est une Machine si composée, qu'il est impossible de s'en faire d'abord une idée claire, & conséquemment de la définir. C'est pourquoi toutes les recherches que les plus grands Philosophes ont faites à priori, c'est à dire, en voulant se servir en quelque sorte des aîles de l'Esprit, ont été vaines. » – L'Homme-Machine p. 8
Quelle: La Mettrie: Der Mensch eine Maschine. Übersetzung durch Adolf Ritter. Berlin 1875, S. 20, www.zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/2000920380X

Bernd A. Laska: Über das Glück oder Das Höchste Gut (»Anti-Seneca«), LSR-Quellen Band 2, Nürnberg 1985/2002, ISBN 3-922058-30-2, S. 40 [65].
Original frz. : « En général, les hommes sont nés méchants; sans l’éducation, il y en aurait peu de bons; » - La Mettrie: Anti-Sénèque ou Discours sur le bonheur Gallica https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6216339q/f173.image.texteImage, Œuvres philosophiques de La Mettrie, tome 2 Nouvelle édition, précédée de son éloge par Frédéric II, roi de Prusse, Berlin 1796.
Discours sur le bonheur ou Le Souverain Bien (Anti-Sénèque), 1748

L'Homme-Machine (Maschine Mensch), 1748
Original: (fr) « L'univers ne sera jamais heureux, à moins qu'il ne soit athée. » - L’Homme-Machine [69]
Quelle: La Mettrie: Der Mensch eine Maschine. Übersetzung von Theodor Lücke. Reclam 2001, S.65, ISBN 978-3150-181461.

L'Homme-Machine (Maschine Mensch), 1748
Original: (fr) « CONCLUONS donc hardiment que l'Homme est une machine ; & qu'il n'y a dans tout l'Univers qu'une seule substance diversement modifié ». – L'Homme-Machine), p. 108
Quelle: La Mettrie: Der Mensch eine Maschine. Übersetzung durch Adolf Ritter. Berlin 1875, S. 79, www.zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/2000920380X

L'Homme-Machine (Maschine Mensch), 1748
Quelle: La Mettrie: Der Mensch eine Maschine. Übersetzung von Theodor Lücke. Reclam 2001, S. 94, ISBN 978-3150-181461.

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Man a Machine (1747), p. 89

Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter
Kontext: Descartes, a genius made to blaze new paths and to go astray in them, supposed with some other philosophers that God is the only efficient cause of motion, and that every instant He communicates motion to all bodies. But this opinion is but an hypothesis which he tried to adjust to the light of faith; and in so doing he was no longer attempting to speak as a philosopher or to philosophers. Above all he was not addressing those who can be convinced only by the force of evidence.<!--p.158

Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter
Kontext: [W]e must admit, with the same frankness, that we are ignorant whether matter has in itself the faculty of feeling, or only the power of acquiring it by those modifications or forms to which matter is susceptible; for it is true that this faculty of feeling appears only in organic bodies.
This is then another new faculty which might exist only potentially in matter, like all the others which have been mentioned; and this was the hypothesis of the ancients, whose philosophy, full of insight and penetration, deserves to be raised above the ruins of the philosophy of the moderns.<!--p.160

Man a Machine (1747), p. 85

Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter
Kontext: We have now but to prove a third attribute: I mean the faculty of feeling which the philosophers of all centuries have found in this same substance.... [T]he Cartesians have made, in vain, to rob matter of this faculty. But in order to avoid insurmountable difficulties, they have flung themselves into a labyrinth from which they have thought to escape by this absurd system "that animals are pure machines."
An opinion so absurd has never gained admittance among philosophers... Experience gives us no less proof of the faculty of feeling in animals than of feeling in men.

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Kontext: Among animals, some learn to speak and sing; they remember tunes, and strike the notes as exactly as a musician. Others, for instance the ape, show more intelligence... would it be absolutely impossible to teach the ape a language? I do not think so.<!--pp.100-102

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Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

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Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter

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Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter, p.156

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Preface, Oeuvres philosophiques de Monsieur de La Mettrie (1764) as quoted by Paul Carus, The Mechanistic Principle and the Non-mechanical (1913) p. 102. https://books.google.com/books?id=wGNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA102

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Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. III Concerning the Extension of Matter

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Gen. i; Is. lxvi
Quelle: The Natural History of the Soul (1745), Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter

(c. 1734) in a successful argument to persuade his father that a medical education was preferred. As quoted by Friedrich Albert Lange, History of Materialism and Critique of its Present Importance Tr. Ernest Chester Thomas (1882) 2nd edition, Vol. 2, p. 55. https://books.google.com/books?id=X4pQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA55

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