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Sun 22 Jan, 2006 08:26 am
Semantics: Man refers to "people." "He" is just a general subject pronoun.
not sure what man is, but i do know this, a hero ain't nothing but a sandwich
deep.
Man acts according to his beliefs; his actions shape his beliefs. It is a never-ending, nearly perfect, cycle.
Man is an Island between Britain and Ireland.
(Despite John Donne's assertion that 'no man is an island')
We can address the question both biologically in terms of our biological "type" and humanisitically in terms of our existential limitations and imperatives, our dramatic literary self-descriptions, and our historical (auto)biography.
And as we do so, we might keep in mind that it is in OUR NATURE to ask such questions and seek such answers. Other "types" of earthly life do not do so--as far as we know.
Why didn't you simply use the word 'people' then?
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