Ep. 284: Mark Twain's Philosophy of Human Nature (Part One)

On "What Is Man" (1905). Twain describes a person as a machine. We have no free will and always act to win our own self-approval. This was a bleak enough picture that the essay was not printed until after Twain's death.

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