Frasi di Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Data di nascita: 25. Dicembre 1709
Data di morte: 11. Novembre 1751
Altri nomi:Julien Offroy De La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie è stato un medico e filosofo francese, il primo scrittore materialista dell'illuminismo. È stato acclamato come fondatore delle scienze cognitive.

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Frasi Julien Offray de La Mettrie

„Dagli animali all'uomo la transizione non è violenta: i veri filosofi ne converranno. Che cos'era l'uomo prima dell'invenzione delle parole e della conoscenza delle lingue? Un animale appartenente alla specie umana, che con molto meno istinto naturale degli altri, di cui allora non si credeva re, si distingueva dalla scimmia e dagli altri animali solo come la scimmia si distingue da questi ultimi, cioè grazie a una fisionomia esprimente maggior discernimento.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
pp. 191-192

„Non mi si obietti che gli animali sono nella maggior parte esseri feroci, incapaci di sentire il male che fanno. Forse che tutti gli uomini sanno distinguere meglio i vizi e le virtù? […] Gli uni e gli altri possono essere più o meno feroci per temperamento, e lo divengono ancor più a contatto con coloro che lo sono. Ma un animale dolce, pacifico, che vive con altri animali simili e si ciba di alimenti dolci sarà nemico del sangue e della carneficina, e arrossirà nel suo interno per averne versato: forse con questa differenza da noi, che siccome in lui tutto è sacrificato ai bisogni, ai piaceri e ai comodi della vita di cui gode più di noi, i suoi rimorsi non sembra debbano essere altrettanto vivi dei nostri, perché noi non abbiamo le loro stesse necessità. L'abitudine smussa, e forse soffoca, sia i rimorsi che i piaceri.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
p. 204

Sulla vita, sugli uomini, sul piacere

„Guardiamo ora quel cane e quel bambino che hanno entrambi perduto il loro padrone sulla strada maestra. Il bambino piange e non sa a che santo votarsi; il cane, meglio servito dal suo odorato che l'altro dalla ragione, lo ritroverà presto. La natura ci aveva dunque fatti per essere inferiori agli animali, o almeno per far meglio emergere con ciò i prodigi dell'educazione, la quale soltanto ci innalza da quel basso livello e ci eleva poi sopra di essi.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Sui bambini

„Malgrado tutti questi vantaggi che l'uomo ha sugli animali, è ancora un onore per lui metterlo nella loro stessa classe. È d'altronde innegabile che fino ad una certa età egli è più animale di loro perché nascendo porta con sé un minore istinto. Qual è l'animale che morirebbe di fame in mezzo ad un fiume di latte? Solo l'uomo. […]Egli si nasconde come se si vergognasse di provare il piacere e di esser fatto per la felicità, mentre gli animali si gloriano di essere cinici. Privi di educazione, essi sono privi anche di pregiudizi.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
p. 201

Sulla fame, sulla felicità, sul piacere, sull'età

„Dagli animali all'uomo la transizione non è netta.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

„Among animals, some learn to speak and sing; they remember tunes, and strike the notes as exactly as a musician. Others, for instance the ape, show more intelligence... would it be absolutely impossible to teach the ape a language? I do not think so.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: Among animals, some learn to speak and sing; they remember tunes, and strike the notes as exactly as a musician. Others, for instance the ape, show more intelligence... would it be absolutely impossible to teach the ape a language? I do not think so.<!--pp.100-102

„It is not enough for a wise man to study nature and truth; he should dare state truth for the benefit of the few who are willing and able to think.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: It is not enough for a wise man to study nature and truth; he should dare state truth for the benefit of the few who are willing and able to think.<!--p. 85

„We have now but to prove a third attribute: I mean the faculty of feeling“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: We have now but to prove a third attribute: I mean the faculty of feeling which the philosophers of all centuries have found in this same substance.... [T]he Cartesians have made, in vain, to rob matter of this faculty. But in order to avoid insurmountable difficulties, they have flung themselves into a labyrinth from which they have thought to escape by this absurd system "that animals are pure machines." An opinion so absurd has never gained admittance among philosophers... Experience gives us no less proof of the faculty of feeling in animals than of feeling in men. Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

„But this opinion is but an hypothesis which he tried to adjust to the light of faith“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: Descartes, a genius made to blaze new paths and to go astray in them, supposed with some other philosophers that God is the only efficient cause of motion, and that every instant He communicates motion to all bodies. But this opinion is but an hypothesis which he tried to adjust to the light of faith; and in so doing he was no longer attempting to speak as a philosopher or to philosophers. Above all he was not addressing those who can be convinced only by the force of evidence.<!--p.158 Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter

„We know in bodies only matter, and we observe the faculty of feeling only in bodies: on what foundation then can we erect an ideal being, disowned by all our knowledge?“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: We know in bodies only matter, and we observe the faculty of feeling only in bodies: on what foundation then can we erect an ideal being, disowned by all our knowledge?<!--p.160 Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

„Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness.<!--p. 89

„This is then another new faculty which might exist only potentially in matter, like all the others“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Context: [W]e must admit, with the same frankness, that we are ignorant whether matter has in itself the faculty of feeling, or only the power of acquiring it by those modifications or forms to which matter is susceptible; for it is true that this faculty of feeling appears only in organic bodies. This is then another new faculty which might exist only potentially in matter, like all the others which have been mentioned; and this was the hypothesis of the ancients, whose philosophy, full of insight and penetration, deserves to be raised above the ruins of the philosophy of the moderns.<!--p.160 Ch. VI Concerning the Sensitive Faculty of Matter

„The ancients, persuaded that there is no body without a moving force, regarded the substance of bodies as composed of two primitive attributes. It was held that, through one of these attributes, this substance has the capacity for moving and, through the other, the capacity for being moved.<!--p.156“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Ch. V Concerning the Moving Force of Matter

„Let us not limit the resources of nature; they are infinite, especially when reinforced by great art.<!--p.102“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

„Write as if thou wert alone in the universe and hadst nothing to fear from the jealousies and prejudices of the people. Otherwise thou wilt miss thy purpose.“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie
Preface, Oeuvres philosophiques de Monsieur de La Mettrie (1764) as quoted by Paul Carus, The Mechanistic Principle and the Non-mechanical (1913) [https://books.google.com/books?id=wGNRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA102 p. 102.]

„Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has become an author, as they became beasts of burden.<!--p.103“

— Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Julien Offray de La Mettrie

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Frasi Julien Offray de La Mettrie

„Dagli animali all'uomo la transizione non è netta.“

„Among animals, some learn to speak and sing; they remember tunes, and strike the notes as exactly as a musician. Others, for instance the ape, show more intelligence... would it be absolutely impossible to teach the ape a language? I do not think so.“

„It is not enough for a wise man to study nature and truth; he should dare state truth for the benefit of the few who are willing and able to think.“

„We have now but to prove a third attribute: I mean the faculty of feeling“

„But this opinion is but an hypothesis which he tried to adjust to the light of faith“

„We know in bodies only matter, and we observe the faculty of feeling only in bodies: on what foundation then can we erect an ideal being, disowned by all our knowledge?“

„Let us... take in our hands the staff of experience... To be blind and to think that one can do without this staff is the worst kind of blindness.“

„This is then another new faculty which might exist only potentially in matter, like all the others“

„Let us not limit the resources of nature; they are infinite, especially when reinforced by great art.<!--p.102“

„Write as if thou wert alone in the universe and hadst nothing to fear from the jealousies and prejudices of the people. Otherwise thou wilt miss thy purpose.“

„Man has been trained in the same way as animals. He has become an author, as they became beasts of burden.<!--p.103“

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