What is man?

What is man? may refer to:

In literature

• Psalm 8, verse 4 begins with this question and may be the origin thereof.
• What Is Man? (Twain essay), essay written by Mark Twain and published in 1906
• What Is Man? (King essay), essay written by Martin Luther King, Jr. and published in 1959
• What Is Man?, a book by Wolfhart Pannenberg
• What is Man, a 1970 book by David Jenkins
• What Is Man? a 1923 work by John Arthur Thomson

In philosophy

• What is man?, a philosophical thought by Thomas Hill Green
• What is man?, a theme found in B. F. Skinner's 1971 book Beyond Freedom and Dignity

In music

• What Is Man, a song by Johnny Cash appearing in the album Personal File
• What is Man?, a four-part composition by Charles Lloyd and Billy Higgins appearing in the 2004 album Which Way Is East