ABSTRACT
La·Mettrie is an early outstanding representative of the French materialism philosophy in 18 Centu-ry.And with his unique " man a machine" ideology,he demonstrated the unity of the relationship between body and mind,criticized the religious theology,scholasticism and the philosophy of previous physical and mental sepa-ration,which played an active role in enlightening people's thinking and laid an ideological foundation for the de-velopment of the capitalist society and economy at that time.He returned all of the life activities to mechanical movements or physical and chemical reactions,which objectively provided the theoretical foundation of philosophy for the generation of modern biomedical mode and also foreshadowed various problems emerging in the process of modern medical diagnosis and treatment activities.
ABSTRACT
The views on the life in the early modern period(the 17th and 18th centuries) with their socio-cultural backgrounds and their meanings at that time were discussed in this paper. Those views discussed here were the dualistic, mechanistic one of Rene Descartes(1596-1650), the animistic, vitalistic one of Georg Ernst Stahl(1660-1734), and the monistic, mechanistic one of Julien Offray de La Mettrie(1709-1751). Author stressed that the processes of their view formation were influenced by the wide range of the various political and religious factors as well as the scientific, medical facts and opinions at that time, and that not only the contents of the views but also their historical contexts should be pursed in the study on the medical thoughts.