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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{La Mettrie was influenced by, cartesianism, epicureanism, Contra-Galenic, and Herman Boerhaave \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2)
He was a materialist about the mind and didn't not believe in pure reason% Row Count 4 (+ 2)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{According to La Mettrie, philosophy and medicine had a shared goal: therapy for the body/mind \newline % Row Count 2 (+ 2)
The philosophies of Descartes, Spinoza, and Hellenistic philosophers formed the basis of science and provided an ethics which could both be applied to the practice of medicine \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 4)
Medicine researched the mind-body interaction, and formed both an empirical basis for natural philosophy and a counteract against speculation. All of which could be applied to philosophy% Row Count 10 (+ 4)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{According to La Mettrie, the soul is physical  \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1)
He claims that facial features can explain your character and give a view of one's soul (physiognomy) \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 3)
the soul is also not divine, it is just the part that thinks. -\textgreater{} He sees the soul as a spring, like that of a clockwork mechanism \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 3)
It is the quality and quantity* of the brain that determines the soul \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 2)
-\textgreater{} thought can be strengthened through education and disposition% Row Count 11 (+ 2)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{* according to Him the brain seems to grow in relation to one's docility}  \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{Beings are....}} \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1)
according to many modern authors, beings are what we can see (causa efficiens), and animals can be understood as machines \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 3)
La Mettrie, claims that if the animal's soul is a machine, so is that of human beings \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 2)
-\textgreater{} Man is a machine constructed in such a way that it is impossible first of all to have a clear idea of it and consequently to define it* \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 3)
-\textgreater{} diseases can affect the way our mind works% Row Count 10 (+ 1)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{* the mind is constructed in a way that it cannot think about itself in ways of which it works, meaning that we have no idea how we work and what we are}  \tn 
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{According to La Mettrie, Man is not special. Thinking is a function of a machine, and it does not matter whether there is a God or not.  \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 3)
Often colonialism was justified by biblical and biological notions, according to La Mettrie, however, there was no biological difference.  \newline % Row Count 6 (+ 3)
He claims that there is both a hierarchical and non-hierarchical structure in the universe: \newline % Row Count 8 (+ 2)
-\textgreater{} hierarchical in the way that man is the most perfect one, as he is the only substance in the universe  \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 3)
-\textgreater{} non-hierarchical: in the way that thinking can be taught and thereby is not better than instinct, hence it cannot make on creature better than the other.% Row Count 15 (+ 4)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{According to La Mettrie, the law of nature tells us that "it is a feeling which teaches us what we should not do, by what we would not like to be done to us" \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 4)
-\textgreater{} in other words, we do not need God for religion (and tell us what is good), we need experience, a feeling (e.g. guilt)  \newline % Row Count 7 (+ 3)
He is a hedonist and thus claims that doing good feels good. He also is unreligious \newline % Row Count 9 (+ 2)
According to La Mettrie animals are better than humans: \newline % Row Count 11 (+ 2)
- animals behave according to the law of nature on instinct \newline % Row Count 13 (+ 2)
- they have more desires because their lives are less flat (they have less everyday habits and their lives changes more) \newline % Row Count 16 (+ 3)
- human choose to act bad, but suffer from their conscience \newline % Row Count 18 (+ 2)
-\textgreater{} because disease can affect one's mind, ill human beings can be less ethically responsible  \newline % Row Count 20 (+ 2)
man and animal differ in degree of education \newline % Row Count 21 (+ 1)
He claims that there is no ethical separation of man-animal% Row Count 23 (+ 2)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{La Mettrie was both a Pyrrhonian and a sceptic: "I don't know if god exists, but maybe it is better if He doesn't" \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 3)
He also claimed that religion was destructive and hence it was better not to believe in God% Row Count 5 (+ 2)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{Knowledge comes from instinct and Imagination.  \newline % Row Count 1 (+ 1)
Knowledge starts from simple connections between sound and image \newline % Row Count 3 (+ 2)
then a separation of parts of the world is made \newline % Row Count 4 (+ 1)
later a connection between these is made \newline % Row Count 5 (+ 1)
a practised combination of imagination and education allows for mathematics% Row Count 7 (+ 2)
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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{{\emph{example process knowledge forming:}} \newline {\emph{a monkey sees a bottle and makes the sound "ha", when he sees fire he makes the sound "hi". other monkeys follow his example; bottles are now known as "ha" and fire as "hi"}}}  \tn 
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