Description: What Is Man?, Paperback by Twain, Mark, ISBN 1585093009, ISBN-13 9781585093007, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This was Twains most serious, philosophical and privat. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and what mankind really is and provides a new and different way of looking at who we are and the way we live. Anyone who thinks Twain was not a brilliant philosopher should read this book. We consider ourselves as free and autonomous people, yet this book puts forth the ideas that 1) We are nothing more than machines and originate nothing - not even a single thought; 2) All conduct arises from one motive - self-satisfaction; 3) Our temperament is completely permanent and unchangeable; and 4) Man is of course a product of heredity, and our future, being fixed, is irrevocable -- which makes life completely predetermined. If these points are true, then buying and reading this book is not in your control, but simply must be done because it was meant to be. If these points are not true you might still wish to make an independent decision to enjoy a thought-provoking book by a great and legendary writer.
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Book Title: What Is Man?
Number of Pages: 116 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Book Tree, T.H.E.
Topic: Movements / Humanism, Essays
Publication Year: 2007
Item Height: 0.2 in
Genre: Philosophy, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 5.6 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Mark Twain
Item Width: 5.5 in
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