Most philosophically significant 19th c. work
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 12:11
You knew it was coming ...
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 12:27
Thank you to whoever bothered to vote on this.
The Great Leveller
18-02-2005, 13:11
Philosophy of Recht.
Seeing as how it had the widest influence (including Engels).
Closely followed by On Liberty.
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 13:21
I voted for the Phenomenology myself because I thought it had the widest influence ... besides all of modern-day phenomenology, Nietzsche, Sartre, Maritain, Tillich, Deleuze, the Frankfurt School all seem to be coming to grips with that work in particular ... there's also the slave-master dialectic that influenced Marx.
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 13:22
I almost didn't include On Liberty, & made room for it at the last minute.
Alien Born
18-02-2005, 13:30
What happened to the 18th Century, or do you have something against Kant?
The Origin of Species is clearly the most influential philosophical work of the 19th century, as its influence has reached almost all people. Hegel is a minor ripple compared to this.
The only possible argument would be that it is not philosophical. It has however provoked a huge amount of philosophical thought.
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 13:47
What happened to the 18th Century, or do you have something against Kant?
The Origin of Species is clearly the most influential philosophical work of the 19th century, as its influence has reached almost all people. Hegel is a minor ripple compared to this.
The only possible argument would be that it is not philosophical. It has however provoked a huge amount of philosophical thought.
There's a 17th/18th century poll too ... Kant's on there (twice) and was almost on there 3 times.
And it's becoming more and more clear to me that I've been neglecting scientific breakthroughs in general on these polls ... good point about The Origin of Species.
Bodies Without Organs
18-02-2005, 13:54
The Origin of Species is clearly the most influential philosophical work of the 19th century, as its influence has reached almost all people. Hegel is a minor ripple compared to this.
The only possible argument would be that it is not philosophical. It has however provoked a huge amount of philosophical thought.
A minor ripple? Marx was, after all, a Hegelian.
I do agree that Darwin should be given a space though.