noun, plural men, verb, manned, man·ning, interjection
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1.
an adult male person, as distinguished from a boy or a woman.
If you need anything more than this to define a man, you are just being pretentious, in my opinion.
What makes a good person is a totally different question, and waaaay too subjective. But I assume it is what was meant here, albeit specific to a male. For me though, a good woman and a good man are the same thing (genitalia and gender sciences notwithstanding).
When asking what makes a good person, I think you can't say "One who does good things" as that view varies. Even if someone doesn't do what I consider to be good things, I still couldn't say they are a bad person. I also think you can't say "Someone who fights for their beliefs" because that's all well and good, but it can be taken too far. No doubt Attila the Hun fought for his beliefs.
I suppose my definition of what makes a good person, and by extension and specification, a true man, would be;
"One who does not lie to oneself, and is open-minded to new ideas, concepts or peoples, and upholds their beliefs with no doubt that those beliefs are wrong, but still with capacity for doubt."
This is actually a definition I have wrestled with for a long time. I think every element is important, because no matter what your beliefs are, be they anti-semitic, homophobic, pacifist, altruist, so long as you are honest with yourself about them and don't block them out of your head in order to attain some short-term hedonism, then you are at least somewhat wholesome, and very strong-weilled. And being open to new things is vital to me as well, for many reasons. Finally, having no doubt in your beliefs, but still capacity for doubt, as in you "can be convinced" is important - You aren't simply another zealot claiming he knows for fact what he believes.
Long winded answers FTW
