1709–1751. Born in France, later worked in the Netherlands and Prussia (Berlin). Wrote in French. An Enlightenment physician and materialist philosopher whose works defend pleasure as the standard of the good and deny the soul's immortality in an explicitly Epicurean-Lucretian vein; repeatedly censored and forced into exile for it.
1. Forum Discussions
- All discussions of Julien Offray de La Mettrie in Epicureans of the Past
- Julien Offray de la Mettrie - Unorganized Thread for findings and quotations
- AntiSeneca
- "D'Argens 'Sacrifices' Le Mettrie" - A posthumous attack on La Mettrie's Epicureanism
- "The System of Epicurus" Full Text (Linked and Attached)
- Julien Offray de la Mettrie in the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
- Verse of Poetry between Voltaire and La Mettrie - On La Mettrie's Fatal Indigestion