Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie

Julien Offray de La Mettrie (French: [ɔfʁɛ də la metʁi]; 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).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 (hedonism). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julien Offray de La Mettrie has received more than 135,058 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Julien Offray de La Mettrie is the 180th most popular philosopher (up from 192nd in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from France (up from 402nd in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Philosopher.

Julien Offray de la Mettrie is most famous for his philosophical work L'homme machine, in which he argues that humans are like machines and that the mind is nothing more than a function of the brain.