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## The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written  by [Martin Seymour-Smith][10]

The 100 Most Influential Books Ever Written: The History of Thought from Ancient Times to Today (1998) is a book of intellectual history written by Martin Seymour-Smith (1928–1998), a British poet, critic, and biographer. 

1. ####  [I Ching by China][11]

[ ![Image of I Ching][12] ][4]

The I Ching, Classic of Changes or Book of Changes; also called Zhouyi, is one of the oldest of the Chinese classic texts. The book contains a divination system comparable to Western geomancy or th... 

\- [Wikipedia][13]

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2. ####  [The Iliad by Homer][14]

[ ![Image of The Iliad][15] ][4]

The Iliad is an epic poem in dactylic hexameters, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set in the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and e... 

\- [Wikipedia][16]

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3. ####  [The Odyssey by Homer][17]

[ ![Image of The Odyssey][18] ][4]

The Odyssey is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work traditionally ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the m... 

\- [Wikipedia][19]

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4. ####  [Upanishads by Hindu scripture][20]

[ ![Image of Upanishads][12] ][4]

The Upanishads are Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of Vedanta.[1] They do not belong to any particular period of Sanskrit literature: the oldest, such as the Brhadaranyaka and C... 

\- [Wikipedia][21]

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5. ####  [The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides][22]

[ ![Image of The History of the Peloponnesian War][23] ][4]

The History of the Peloponnesian War is an account of the Peloponnesian War in Ancient Greece, fought between the Peloponnesian League (led by Sparta) and the Delian League (led by Athens). It was ... 

\- [Wikipedia][24]

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6. ####  [The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus][25]

[ ![Image of The Histories of Herodotus][26] ][4]

The Histories of Herodotus is considered one of the seminal works of history in Western literature. Written from the 450s to the 420s BC in the Ionic dialect of classical Greek, The Histories serve... 

\- [Wikipedia][27]

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7. ####  [Corpus Aristotelicum by Aristotle][28]

[ ![Image of Corpus Aristotelicum][29] ][4]

The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from antiquity through Medieval manuscript transmission. These texts, as opposed to Aristotle's lost works, are te... 

\- [Wikipedia][30]

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8. ####  [The Republic by Plato][31]

[ ![Image of The Republic][32] ][4]

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written c. 380 B.C.E.. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and Plato's best known work. In Plato's fictional di... 

\- [Wikipedia][33]

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9. ####  [Analects by Confucius][34]

[ ![Image of Analects][35] ][4]

Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions ... 

\- [Wikipedia][36]

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10. ####  [Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu][37]

[ ![Image of Tao Te Ching][38] ][4]

The Tao Te Ching or Dao De Jing, originally known as Laozi, a record-keeper at the Zhou Dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text's true authorship and date of composition o... 

\- [Wikipedia][39]

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11. ####  [Hippocratic Corpus by Hippocrates][40]

[ ![Image of Hippocratic Corpus][41] ][4]

The Hippocratic Corpus, Hippocratic Collection, or Hippocratic Canon, is a collection of around seventy early medical works from ancient Greece strongly associated with the ancient Greek physician ... 

\- [Wikipedia][42]

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12. ####  [Euclid's Elements by Euclid][43]

[ ![Image of Euclid's Elements][44] ][4]

Euclid's Elements (Greek: Στοιχεῖα) is a mathematical and geometric treatise consisting of 13 books written by the Greek mathematician Euclid in Alexandria circa 300 BC. It is a collection of defin... 

\- [Wikipedia][45]

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13. ####  [Dhammapada by Theravada Buddhist scripture][46]

[ ![Image of Dhammapada][12] ][4]

The Dhammapada is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon. 

\- [Wikipedia][47]

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14. ####  [Avesta by Zoroastrian scripture][48]

[ ![Image of Avesta][49] ][4]

The Avesta is the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language. 

\- [Wikipedia][50]

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15. ####  [De Rerum Natura by Lucretius][51]

[ ![Image of De Rerum Natura][52] ][4]

De rerum natura is a first century BC epic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius with the goal of explaining Epicurean philosophy to a Roman audience. The poem, written in dactylic hexam... 

\- [Wikipedia][53]

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16. ####  [The Aeneid by Virgil][54]

[ ![Image of The Aeneid][55] ][4]

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the... 

\- [Wikipedia][56]

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17. ####  [Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws by Philo of Alexandria][57]

[ ![Image of Allegorical Expositions of the Holy Laws][12] ][4]

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18. ####  [Parallel Lives by Plutarch][59]

[ ![Image of Parallel Lives][60] ][4]

Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral vi... 

\- [Wikipedia][61]

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19. ####  [Annals by Cornelius Tacitus][62]

[ ![Image of Annals][63] ][4]

The Annals (Latin: Annales) is a history book by Tacitus covering the reign of the four Roman Emperors succeeding to Caesar Augustus. The parts of the work that survived from antiquity cover most o... 

\- [Wikipedia][64]

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20. ####  [Meditations by Marcus Aurelius][65]

[ ![Image of Meditations][66] ][4]

Meditations (Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν, Ta eis heauton, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself") is the title of a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius setting forth his ideas on Stoic phi... 

\- [Wikipedia][67]

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21. ####  [Outlines of Pyrrhonism by Sextus Empiricus][68]

[ ![Image of Outlines of Pyrrhonism][69] ][4]

Philosophical skepticism (from Greek σκέψις - skepsis meaning "enquiry" \- UK and traditional spelling, scepticism) is both a philosophical school of thought and a method that crosses disciplines an... 

\- [Wikipedia][70]

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22. ####  [Gospel of Truth by Valentinus][71]

[ ![Image of Gospel of Truth][72] ][4]

The Gospel of Truth is one of the Gnostic texts from the New Testament apocrypha found in the Nag Hammadi codices ("NHC"). It exists in two Coptic translations, a Subachmimic rendition surviving al... 

\- [Wikipedia][73]

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23. ####  [Enneads by Plotinus][74]

[ ![Image of Enneads][75] ][4]

The Six Enneads, sometimes abbreviated to The Enneads or Enneads (Greek: Ἐννεάδες), is the collection of writings of Plotinus, edited and compiled by his student Porphyry (c. 270 AD). Plotinus was ... 

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24. ####  [Confessions by Augustine][77]

[ ![Image of Confessions ][78] ][4]

Confessions is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published ... 

\- [Wikipedia][79]

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25. ####  [The Quran by Various Authors][80]

[ ![Image of The Quran][81] ][4]

The Qur'an is the central religious text of Islam, also sometimes transliterated as Quran, Qur'ān, Koran, Alcoran or Al-Qur'ān. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of divine guidance and dire... 

\- [Wikipedia][82]

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26. ####  [The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides][83]

[ ![Image of The Guide for the Perplexed][84] ][4]

The Guide for the Perplexed is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or "the Rambam". It was written in the 12th century in the form of a three-volume letter ... 

\- [Wikipedia][85]

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27. ####  [Kabbalah by Unknown][86]

[ ![Image of Kabbalah][87] ][4]

Kabbalah is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the mystical aspect of Judaism. It is a set of esoteric teachings that is meant to explain the relationship between an infinite, eterna... 

\- [Wikipedia][88]

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28. ####  [The Hebrew Bible by Jewish scripture][89]

[ ![Image of The Hebrew Bible][12] ][4]

The Hebrew Bible is a term referring to the books of the Jewish Bible as originally written mostly in Biblical Hebrew with some Biblical Aramaic. The term closely corresponds to contents of the Jew... 

\- [Wikipedia][90]

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29. ####  [Summa Theologica by Thomas Aquinas][91]

[ ![Image of Summa Theologica][92] ][4]

The Summa Theologica (Latin: "Summary of Theology" or "Highest Theology") or the Summa Theologiæ or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274), al... 

\- [Wikipedia][93]

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30. ####  [The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri ][94]

[ ![Image of The Divine Comedy ][95] ][4]

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the ... 

\- [Publisher ][58]

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31. ####  [The Praise of Folly by Erasmus][96]

[ ![Image of The Praise of Folly][97] ][4]

The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is an essay written in 1509 by... 

\- [Wikipedia][98]

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32. ####  [On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church by Martin Luther][99]

[ ![Image of On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church][100] ][4]

Although the term Babylonian captivity, or Babylonian exile, typically refers to the deportation and exile of the Jews of the ancient Kingdom of Judah to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 BC, in ... 

\- [Wikipedia][101]

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33. ####  [Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais][102]

[ ![Image of Gargantua and Pantagruel][103] ][4]

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of t... 

\- [Wikipedia][104]

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34. ####  [The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli][105]

[ ![Image of The Prince][106] ][4]

Il Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine public servant and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. Originally called De Principatibus (About Principalities), it was origi... 

\- [Wikipedia][107]

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35. ####  [Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin][108]

[ ![Image of Institutes of the Christian Religion][109] ][4]

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Institutio Christianae religionis) is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely re... 

\- [Wikipedia][110]

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36. ####  [On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Nicolaus Copernicus][111]

[ ![Image of On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres][112] ][4]

De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg, is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicu... 

\- [Wikipedia][113]

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37. ####  [Essays by Michel de Montaigne][114]

[ ![Image of Essays][115] ][4]

Essays is the title given to a collection of 107 essays written by Michel de Montaigne that was first published in 1580. Montaigne essentially invented the literary form of essay, a short subjectiv... 

\- [Wikipedia][116]

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38. ####  [Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes][117]

[ ![Image of Don Quixote][118] ][4]

Alonso Quixano, a retired country gentleman in his fifties, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes th... 

\- [Wikipedia][119]

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39. ####  [The Bible by Christian Church][120]

[ ![Image of The Bible][121] ][4]

The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611 by the Church of England. Printed by the King's Printer, Robert Barker, the fi... 

\- [Wikipedia][122]

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40. ####  [The Harmony of the Worlds by Johannes Kepler][123]

[ ![Image of The Harmony of the Worlds][124] ][4]

Harmonices Mundi (Latin: The Harmony of the Worlds, 1619) is a book by Johannes Kepler. In the work Kepler discusses harmony and congruence in geometrical forms and physical phenomena. The final se... 

\- [Wikipedia][125]

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41. ####  [Novum Organum by Francis Bacon][126]

[ ![Image of Novum Organum][127] ][4]

The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on lo... 

\- [Wikipedia][128]

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42. ####  [First Folio by William Shakespeare][129]

[ ![Image of First Folio][130] ][4]

Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies is the 1623 published collection of William Shakespeare's plays. Modern scholars commonly refer to it as the First Folio. Printed in folio... 

\- [Wikipedia][131]

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43. ####  [Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo][132]

[ ![Image of Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems][133] ][4]

The Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei comparing the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. It was translated to L... 

\- [Wikipedia][134]

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44. ####  [Discourse on Method by Rene Descartes][135]

[ ![Image of Discourse on Method][136] ][4]

\- [Wikipedia][137]

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45. ####  [Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes][138]

[ ![Image of Leviathan][139] ][4]

Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written by Thomas Hobbes which was published in 1651. It is titled after th... 

\- [Wikipedia][140]

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46. ####  [Pensées by Blaise Pascal][141]

[ ![Image of Pensées][142] ][4]

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47. ####  [Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza][144]

[ ![Image of Ethics][145] ][4]

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48. ####  [Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan][147]

[ ![Image of Pilgrim's Progress ][148] ][4]

One of the most powerful dramas of Christian faith ever written, this captivating allegory of man's religious journey in search of salvation follows the pilgrim as he travels an obstacle-filled roa... 

\- [Publisher ][58]

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49. ####  [Principia Mathematica by Issac Newton][149]

[ ![Image of Principia Mathematica][12] ][4]

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50. ####  [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke][151]

[ ![Image of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding][152] ][4]

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is one of John Locke's two most famous works, the other being his Second Treatise on Civil Government. First appearing in 1690, the essay concerns the founda... 

\- [Wikipedia][153]

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51. ####  [A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge by George Berkeley][154]

[ ![Image of A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge][155] ][4]

A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work by Anglo-Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This bo... 

\- [Wikipedia][156]

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52. ####  [Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz][157]

[ ![Image of Works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz][12] ][4]

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (German pronunciation: [ˈgɔtfrit ˈvɪlhɛlm fən ˈlaɪpnɪts]; 1 July 1646 [OS: 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German philosopher, polymath and mathematician who wrote ... 

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53. ####  [The New Science by Giambattista Vico][159]

[ ![Image of The New Science][160] ][4]

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54. ####  [A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume][162]

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A Treatise of Human Nature is a book by Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1739–1740. 

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55. ####  [Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot][165]

[ ![Image of Encyclopédie][166] ][4]

Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (English: Encyclopedia, or a systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts, and crafts) was a general encyclopedia publish... 

\- [Wikipedia][167]

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56. ####  [A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson][168]

[ ![Image of A Dictionary of the English Language][169] ][4]

Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, is among the most influential dictionaries in the histor... 

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57. ####  [Candide by Voltaire][171]

[ ![Image of Candide][172] ][4]

Candide, ou l'Optimisme is a French satire written in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. Candide is characterized by its sarcastic tone and its erratic, fantastical, an... 

\- [Wikipedia][173]

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58. ####  [Common Sense by Thomas Paine][174]

[ ![Image of Common Sense][175] ][4]

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59. ####  [The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith][177]

[ ![Image of The Wealth of Nations][178] ][4]

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (generally referred to by the short title The Wealth of Nations) is the magnum opus written by Scottish economist and moral philosophe... 

\- [Wikipedia][179]

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60. ####  [The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon][180]

[ ![Image of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire][181] ][4]

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was written by English historian Edward Gibbon and published in six volumes. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six printings. ... 

\- [Wikipedia][182]

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61. ####  [Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant][183]

[ ![Image of Critique of Pure Reason][184] ][4]

The Critique of Pure Reason (German: Kritik der reinen Vernunft ) by Immanuel Kant, first published in 1781, second edition 1787, is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. ... 

\- [Wikipedia][185]

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62. ####  [The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau by Jean-Jacques Rousseau][186]

[ ![Image of The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau][187] ][4]

Confessions is an autobiographical book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In modern times, it is often published with the title The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in order to distinguish it from St. ... 

\- [Wikipedia][188]

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63. ####  [Reflections on the Revolution in France by Edmund Burke][189]

[ ![Image of Reflections on the Revolution in France][190] ][4]

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), by Edmund Burke, is one of the best-known intellectual attacks against the (then-infant) French Revolution. In the twentieth century, it much influen... 

\- [Wikipedia][191]

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64. ####  [Enquiry Concerning Political Justice by William Godwin][192]

[ ![Image of Enquiry Concerning Political Justice][193] ][4]

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism, and one of the first moder... 

\- [Wikipedia][194]

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65. ####  [An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Robert Malthus][195]

[ ![Image of An Essay on the Principle of Population][196] ][4]

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798 through J. Johnson (London). The author was soon identified as The Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus. While it ... 

\- [Wikipedia][197]

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66. ####  [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft][198]

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects (1792), written by the eighteenth-century British feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, is one of the earliest works of... 

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67. ####  [Phenomenology of Mind by G. W. F. Hegel][201]

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Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is one of G.W.F. Hegel's most important philosophical works. It is translated as The Phenomenology of Spirit or The Phenomenology of Mind due to the dual meaning i... 

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68. ####  [The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer][204]

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69. ####  [On War by Carl Von Clausewitz][207]

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71. ####  [Either Or by Soren Kierkegaard][213]

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72. ####  [Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels][216]

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73. ####  [Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau][219]

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74. ####  [On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin][222]

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75. ####  [On Liberty by John Stuart Mill][225]

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76. ####  [First Principles by Herbert Spencer][228]

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77. ####  [Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel][230]

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80. ####  [Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche][238]

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99. ####  [The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan][292]

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