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What Is Man? And Other Stories

What Is Man? And Other Stories

Twain, Mark

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Letters & Essays

ISBN10: 1537658298
ISBN13: 9781537658292
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 15 2016
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
What Is Man?, published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a Young Man and an Old Man regarding the nature of man. The title refers to Psalm 8:4, which begins what is man, that you are mindful of him.... It involves ideas of determinism and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserts that the human being is merely a machine, and nothing more, driven by the singular purpose to satisfy his own desires and achieve peace of mind. The Young Man objects, and asks him to go into particulars and furnish his reasons for his position. The work appears to be a genuine and earnest debate of his opinions about human nature, rather than satirical. Twain held views similar to that of the Old Man prior to writing What is Man?. However, he seems to have varied in his opinions of human freedom.

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