A happiness fit for organic bodies: La Mettrie's medical Epicureanism

In Neven Leddy & Avi Lifschitz (eds.), Epicurus in the Enlightenment. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation. pp. 69--83 (2009)
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A chapter on the specifically 'medical' Epicureanism of La Mettrie, connecting his materialist approach to mind-body issues and his hedonistic ethics

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Charles T. Wolfe
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