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Julien Offray de La Mettrie, an Uncommon card
Julien Offray de La Mettrie was a French physician and philosopher, and one of the earliest of the French materialists of the Enlightenment.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 66
- DEF
- 59
- Power
- 125
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 19,000
Power 125 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is best known for his 1747 work L'homme machine.
- La Mettrie is most remembered for taking the position that humans are complex animals and no more have souls than other animals do.
- He considered that the mind is part of the body and that life should be lived so as to produce pleasure.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Julien Offray de La Mettrie article was read about 19,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 66 and blocks with 59: each hit it takes is cut by 24 %.
How to get Julien Offray de La Mettrie
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Julien Offray de La Mettrie (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Achille Ouvré (1872-1951), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
