Most philosophically significant 17th/18th c. work
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 12:29
Just in case people decide they want to vote on it.
The Great Leveller
18-02-2005, 13:08
No Paine?
I really want to pick Wollstonecraft, if only for being the mother of Mary Shelley.
But I think I will go for The Social Contract.
Alien Born
18-02-2005, 13:10
You have the wrong book by Hume on your list
I vote for
A Treatise on Human Nature
I also wonder about the absence of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 13:14
Seriously, everyone who voted on this is cool ... ESPECIALLY if you critiqued the poll choices.
Sankaraland
18-02-2005, 13:16
Oh, I thought about Paine ... if I'd included him, it probably would've been The Age of Reason ... which were you thinking?
The Great Leveller
18-02-2005, 13:21
Oh, I thought about Paine ... if I'd included him, it probably would've been The Age of Reason ... which were you thinking?
Come to think of it, I didn't have any in mind (one the annoying things about having a book with all a thinker's main books in is that I occasionally forget they are separate pieces of work ;)).
Although I am partial to Common Sense.
"A French bastard [William the Conqueror] landing with an armed banditti and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original."