An essay on man

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English

 

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Daniel H

 

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October 29, 2015

 

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University

 

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To reason against those things that have been kept hidden to them. He is trying to bring them into the 18th century, asking them to look for evidence in the knowledge they receive, rather than allowing the church (or other institutions) to spoon-feed them all of their knowledge. Pope's attempt, in writing "An Essay on Man" was to "vindicate the ways of God to Man"(Wilkie and Hurt 292) and warn that man himself is not, dissipate what pride would allow him to believe, the center of all things...
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The concept of "the great chain of being" is well represented in Pope's "An Essay on Man." Pope addresses the issue of man's place in the Universe when he, "vast chain of being which from God Began,/ Nature's ethereal, human, angel, man?"(lines 237-238). Pope expresses his opinion that a man's place in the Universe is within Nature's chain...
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