Before revision: He is best known for his work L'homme machine (Man a Machine).The 1748 English translation bore the title Man a machine, but Ann Thomson, in her recent translation, chooses the title Machine Man (Thomson 1996) La Mettrie is most remembered for taking the position that humans are complex animals and no more have souls than other animals do.
After revision: 1747He is best known for his work L'homme machine (Man a Machine).The 1748 English translation bore the title Man a machine, but Ann Thomson, in her recent translation, chooses the title Machine Man (Thomson 1996) La Mettrie is most remembered for taking the position that humans are complex animals and no more have souls than other animals do.