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"item_title" : "The Wisdom of Pleasures",
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The Wisdom of Pleasures : The School of Voluptuousness and The Art of Enjoyment
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781730916687
- ISBN-10: 1730916686
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: November 2018
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.47 pounds
- Page Count: 164
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