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La Mettrie, Julien Offray de

Julien Offray de la Mettrie, 1709-1751. Mechanistic atheist thinker of the French Enlightenment, who championed a deterministic worldview. His most famous work was Man a Machine.

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• - Short explanation of de la Mettrie's views.
  
• - Frederic the Great's Eulogy on Julien Offray de la Mettrie.
  
• - Full English text of La Mettrie's 1748 classic, in a single page. Reproduced from the revised Bussey translation.
  
• - Cosma Rohilla Shalizi's transcription of La Mettrie's famous work Man a Machine, in addition to some notes on other thinkers' reactions to La Mettrie.
  
  

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