Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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French physician and philosopher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Julien Offray de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine . La Mettrie is most remembered for taking the position that humans are complex animals and no more have souls than other animals do. He considered that the mind is part of the body and that life should be lived so as to produce pleasure . His views were so controversial that he had to flee France and settle in Berlin.
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