PHILOS 3NN3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Epicurus, Julien Offray De La Mettrie, Atomism
26 Oct 2017
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Diderot letter on the blind for the use of those who see. De la mettrie review: soul and the body relationship, animals have souls, overcome worldview that man has rights over animals, this enlightenment view did not extend to women, discusses men and animals as self operating machines. Leibniz didn"t believe in interaction between body and mind, but upheld the machinery interaction. De le mettrie reconciled body and mind with harmony through pre-determinism. How does the material mind interact with the material body: well there is no material mind, but that doesn"t explain our inner experience, materialism may not solve the mind/body problem. If there were gods, they must be material beings, they must be distant and some sort of vestige of them appears to us. Evolution- suppose in beginning out of chaos things produced out of earth, things with no arms no legs, perhaps no genitalia (all kinds of things are.
