HISTORICAL ANTECEDENT OF THIS POSITION x Julien Offray de La Mettrie(拉美特 x November 23, 1709 111 November 11, 1751)was a French physician and philos opher, and one of the earliest of the french materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine("Machine man" 2), wherein he rejected the cartesian dualism of mind and body, and proposed he metaph or of th he human being as machineHISTORICAL ANTECEDENT OF THIS POSITION  Julien Offray de La Mettrie (拉·美特利  November 23, 1709 [1] – November 11, 1751) was a French physician and philos opher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment. He is best known for his work L'homme machine ("Machine man"[2]), wherein he rejected the Cartesian dualism of mind and body, and proposed the metaphor of the human being as machine