Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709-51), author of Man a Machine (1747), was the most uncompromising of the materialists of the eighteenth century, and the provocative title of his work ensured it a succes de scandale in his own time. This fully annotated edition presents a new English translation of the text together with the most important of La Mettrie's other philosophical works, translated into English for the first time. Ann Thomson's introduction examines his aims and the scandalous moral consequences which he drew from his materialism.

Is your life ALL that it could be? If not, then you could stand to love yourself more When you don't fully and completely love yourself, you attract undesirable circumstances into your life. You feel hollow inside. You may be struggling with your weight, relationships, career, or money. And regardless of your accomplishments, each time things don't go "right," you end up beating yourself up. You don't intend to create the chaos or unhappiness that you feel. You may even try hard to get rid of it. But, the unhappiness in your life exists because deep in your core you don't completely love...