La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment
La Mettrie: Medicine, Philosophy, and Enlightenment
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拉梅特里：医学、哲学和启蒙运动
DOI：
10.5860/choice.30-2263
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发表时间：
1992
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通讯作者：
K. Wellman
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作者：
A. Vartanian;K. Wellman
朱利安·奥弗雷·德·拉·梅特里是著名的《L之人机器》的作者，在大多数关于启蒙运动的描述中，他都是一个次要角色。但在凯瑟琳·威尔曼的这本知识分子传记中，La Mettrie--医生兼哲学家--成为了一个核心人物，他对哲学和道德问题的医学方法对那个时代及其遗产产生了深远的影响。威尔曼的研究表明，拉梅特里是进步医学理论和实践的倡导者，他一贯将自己对医学的关注应用于哲学、道德和社会的改革。通过考察他与荷兰内科医生赫尔曼·波尔哈夫的训练，他讽刺医疗行业的无知和贪腐，以及他的医学论文，从眩晕到性病，威尔曼阐明了La Mettrie哲学的医学根源。她展示了医学如何鼓励La Mettrie对哲学传统进行无神论批判，并为医学唯物主义奠定了基础，这种医学唯物主义塑造了他对道德和社会改革可能性的理解，并导致他信奉哲学家的事业。阐明了启蒙运动特别是现代世界遗留给我们的关于自然、人类和社会的医学观点，La Mettrie对我们对那个时代和我们自己的理解做出了重要贡献。
Julien Offray de la Mettrie, best known as the author of L'Homme machine, appears as a minor character in most accounts of the Enlightenment. But in this intellectual biography by Kathleen Wellman, La Mettrie-physician-philosophe-emerges as a central figure whose medical approach to philosophical and moral issues had a profound influence on the period and its legacy. Wellman's study presents La Mettrie as an advocate of progressive medical theory and practice who consistently applied his medical concerns to the reform of philosophy, morals, and society. By examining his training with the Dutch physician Hermann Boerhaave, his satires lampooning the ignorance and venality of the medical profession, and his medical treatises on subjects ranging from vertigo to veneral disease, Wellman illuminates the medical roots of La Mettrie's philosophy. She shows how medicine encouraged La Mettrie to undertake an impiricist critique of the philosophical tradition and provided the foundation for a medical materialism that both shaped his understanding of the possibilities of moral and social reform and led him to espouse the cause of the philosophers. Elucidating the medical view of nature, human beings, and society that the Enlightenment and La Mettrie in particular bequethed to the modern world, La Mettrie makes an important contribution to our understanding of both that period and our own.