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Julien Offray de La Mettrie (November 23 1709 – November 11 1751) was a French physician and philosopher and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L’homme machine Machine man. or The Human Mechanism.

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birth date
1709-11-23, 1709-12-19
birth place
Kingdom of France, France, Saint-Malo
death date
1751-11-11
death place
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia
era
Age of Enlightenment
influenced
François Picavet, Michel Onfray
influenced by
Herman Boerhaave, John Locke, François-Joseph Hunauld
main interest
Mind–body problem
philosophicalSchool
French materialism

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