Julien Offray de la Mettrie

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    2. Julien Offray de la Mettrie in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum

      • Joshua
      • March 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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      • March 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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    2. "D'Argens 'Sacrifices' Le Mettrie" - A posthumous attack on La Mettrie's Epicureanism 3

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      • May 25, 2020 at 7:34 PM
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    2. Verse of Poetry between Voltaire and La Mettrie - On La Mettrie's Fatal Indigestion

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      • May 1, 2020 at 1:24 PM
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    2. AntiSeneca 5

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      • January 21, 2020 at 11:41 PM
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    2. "The System of Epicurus" Full Text (Linked and Attached) 2

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      • January 26, 2020 at 4:29 PM
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      January 27, 2020 at 9:49 AM

    2. Julien Offray de la Mettrie - Unorganized Thread for findings and quotations 16

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      • January 21, 2020 at 6:06 PM
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