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LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de (1709 – 1751)

LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de (1709 – 1751)

1709 – 1751

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1748 CE

#586

L’homme machine.

LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de (1709 – 1751)
LA METTRIE, Julien Offray de (1709 – 1751)

La Mettrie attempted among other things to prove the materialism of the soul. Because of his blatant and aggressive atheism, all of La Mettrie’s writings were placed on the Index and systematically burned. Owing…