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  2. An Essay on Man - Wikipedia

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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'), ...

  3. Alexander Pope - Wikipedia

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    An Essay on Man is a philosophical poem in heroic couplets published between 1732 and 1734. Pope meant it as the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics to be put forth in poetic form. Pope meant it as the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics to be put forth in poetic form.

  4. Essay - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Talk:An Essay on Man - Wikipedia

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    Philosophy portal; This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philosophy, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of content related to philosophy on Wikipedia. . If you would like to support the project, please visit the project page, where you can get more details on how you can help, and where you can join the general discussion about philosophy content on Wikiped

  6. Ernst Cassirer - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Hope Springs Eternal - Wikipedia

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    Hope Springs Eternal is a phrase from the Alexander Pope poem An Essay on Man. Hope Springs Eternal may also refer to: Books

  8. Definition of man - Wikipedia

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    Definition of Man, also known as the Definition of Human, originated from a summary essay of Kenneth Burke (1897–1993) which he included in his 1966 work, Language as Symbolic Action. Burke's work in communication has spanned many fields and focuses primarily on rhetoric.

  9. What Is Man? (Twain essay) - Wikipedia

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    "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 ...