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"An Essay on Man" is a poem published by Alexander Pope in 1733–1734. It was dedicated to Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (pronounced 'Bull-en-brook'), ...
An Essay on Man (written and published in English) (1944) (books.google.com) The Myth of the State (written and published in English) (posthumous) (1946) (books.google.com) Symbol, Myth, and Culture: Essays and Lectures of Ernst Cassirer, 1935–1945, ed. by Donald Phillip Verene (March 11, 1981) Ernst Cassirer: Gesammelte Werke. Hamburger Ausgabe.
Even a person’s actions may derive from something other than actual intention. He concludes that the best way to assess character is by discovering a ‘ruling passion’ (an idea previously found in An Essay on Man), [2] which may appear most significantly at a person’s death, and which ‘clue once found unravels all the rest’ (l. 178 ...
Almost all modern essays are written in prose, but works in verse have been dubbed essays (e.g., Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism and An Essay on Man). While brevity usually defines an essay, voluminous works like John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Thomas Malthus 's An Essay on the Principle of Population are ...
One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society is a 1964 book by the German–American philosopher and critical theorist Herbert Marcuse, in which the author offers a wide-ranging critique of both the contemporary capitalist society of the Western Bloc and the communist society of the Soviet Union, documenting the parallel rise of new forms of social repression in ...
Frontispiece. An Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744), published in 1711. It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human; to forgive, divine", "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
"What Is Man?" is a short story by American writer Mark Twain, published in 1906. It 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 ...
Such people begin with God and not man. Bolingbroke was a Platonist as were the 19th c Whigs with all their coercive measures, and they remain so today. They make it seem man is perfectible, but make the attempt impossible and authoritarian. Whatever is, must be right, because we are in no position to know otherwise no matter what such people ...