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The Wisdom of Pleasures: The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
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The Wisdom of Pleasures: The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment
Julien Offray De La Mettrie
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 |
| Publishers | Independently Published |
| Pages | 164 |
| Dimensions | 140 × 216 × 10 mm · 213 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Watson, Kirk |
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