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en-wikipedia-org-5663		Julien Offray de La Mettrie - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3798	540	68	There he developed his doctrines still more boldly and completely in L'Homme machine, a hastily written treatise based upon consistently materialistic and quasi-atheistic principles.[3] La Mettrie's materialism was in many ways the product of his medical concerns, drawing on the work of 17th-century predecessors such as the Epicurean physician Guillaume Lamy.[5] The ethical implications of these principles would later be worked out in his Discours sur le bonheur; La Mettrie considered it his magnum opus.[6] Here he developed his theory of remorse, i.e. his view about the inauspicious effects of the feelings of guilt acquired at early age during the process of enculturation. La Mettrie believed that man worked like a machine due to mental thoughts depending on bodily actions. La Mettrie most directly influenced Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis, a prominent French physician. ^ a b c d e Aram Vartanian, La Mettrie's L'Homme Machine: A Study in the Origins of an Idea (Princeton University Press, 1960), p.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5663.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5663.txt