what is man
Ms. Larsen
English
12/16/13
What is Man? What is man? This is a question that has been debated since the beginning time and over and over again to this day. The real question is, is there truly an answer? Mark twain seems to believe, as stated in his essay “what is Man” Which is a conversation between an old man and a young man as some of his other essays were written, that the answer to this question as old as life that men are simply machines. Machines that can only act and think because of what they have seen, heard, or been taught. Now I am no philosophy buff , I have never studied the human brain, and I am certainly no psychiatrist and I don’t try and make myself out to be one but I have met many people in my short life so far and to be a cliché as possible every man I’ve met have been like a snow flake some look eerily similar but have small details that are different, some are polar opposites, and many are somewhere in between. I would have to disagree with Mark Twain’s answer to this question which is hard to because he is one of the smartest men and greatest writers to ever live. I disagree because men have a conscious, men have personalities, and there is no answer. One reason I Disagree with mark twain is that one huge difference between man and machine is that a man has a conscious and a machine does not. A man thinks before he acts no matter how short or long that they think about it everything they do runs through there conscious. A man can’t act without the approval of his conscious if he thinks something is wrong by his conscious he won’t do it. However a conscious can be a very delicate subject because people may argue why is there bad things that happen if this is true, why are there murder and rape and child abuse happening. This is just more proof that man or not machines, some men cannot fathom killing or raping someone their conscious would never allow it. However, some men think that if they want something to happen
English
12/16/13
What is Man? What is man? This is a question that has been debated since the beginning time and over and over again to this day. The real question is, is there truly an answer? Mark twain seems to believe, as stated in his essay “what is Man” Which is a conversation between an old man and a young man as some of his other essays were written, that the answer to this question as old as life that men are simply machines. Machines that can only act and think because of what they have seen, heard, or been taught. Now I am no philosophy buff , I have never studied the human brain, and I am certainly no psychiatrist and I don’t try and make myself out to be one but I have met many people in my short life so far and to be a cliché as possible every man I’ve met have been like a snow flake some look eerily similar but have small details that are different, some are polar opposites, and many are somewhere in between. I would have to disagree with Mark Twain’s answer to this question which is hard to because he is one of the smartest men and greatest writers to ever live. I disagree because men have a conscious, men have personalities, and there is no answer. One reason I Disagree with mark twain is that one huge difference between man and machine is that a man has a conscious and a machine does not. A man thinks before he acts no matter how short or long that they think about it everything they do runs through there conscious. A man can’t act without the approval of his conscious if he thinks something is wrong by his conscious he won’t do it. However a conscious can be a very delicate subject because people may argue why is there bad things that happen if this is true, why are there murder and rape and child abuse happening. This is just more proof that man or not machines, some men cannot fathom killing or raping someone their conscious would never allow it. However, some men think that if they want something to happen