Browse Items (1 total) Tags: Cartesianism Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Sort by: Title Creator Date Added From Beast-Machine to Man-Machine: Animal Soul in French Letters from Descartes to La Mettrie An indispensible account of the transition from the Cartesian view of animals as mere biological machines to La Mettrie’s view that human beings are also just such machines. Rosenfield’s work is especially important for its consideration of a wide… Tags: animals, Cartesianism, early modern culture, materialism Featured Item No featured items are available.