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What Is Man? and Other Essays
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Mark Twain’s What Is Man? and Other Essays brings together late 19th-century essays and philosophical dialogues that probe questions about human nature, morality, and what shapes the way people think and act. The opening piece is framed as a conversation between an Old Man and a Young Man, centered on whether human beings function like machines governed by external influences. As the dialogue unfolds, they consider how opinions, virtues, and impulses arise, and what that implies about personal merit and the nature of free will. Through this debate, Twain invites reflection on the origins of motives and the possibility that much of human conduct is driven by forces beyond an individual’s conscious control.
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