A Treatise of Human Nature |
David Hume (1711 - 1776) |
Many scholars today consider the Treatise to be Hume's most important work and one of the most important books in the history of philosophy. |
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman |
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 - 1797) |
Written in 1792 it is one of the earliest works on "the woman question". The controversial life of its author caused the earliest feminists to distance themselves from the work. Some major themes include education for girls, the debased position of women in society, the necessary equality of men and women, and the right of women to work. |
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Aenid |
Vergil (70BC - 19BC) |
Picks up where the film Troy (loosely based on Homer's Iliad) leaves off and follows Aeneis a fleeing Trojan as he travels to Italy, makes war on the Latins, and becomes an ancestor of the Romans. Virgil was the "Latin world's Shakespeare". |
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Almayer's Folly |
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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American Notes |
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) |
By the time Dickens set out for America in 1842, he was already a well known author and celebrity. His illuminating book American Notes is his depiction of the New World, a place with both admirable (well run hospitals, prisons, law courts) and despicable (slavery, unsavoury manners) qualities. When first published, his accounts and opinions incited hostile reactions on both sides of the Atlantic. |
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Amy Foster |
Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924) |
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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (vol 1) |
John Locke (1632 - 1704) |
This essay is Locke's most famous work. It concerns that nature of human knowledge and understanding. It was one of the primary sources for empiricism, influenced many enlightenment philosophers like David Hume and Bishop Berkeley. The main thrust of the essay is that man does not have innate ideas or principals, that all are developed by experience. Volume one is devoted to disproving the theory of innate ideas. Volume two shows how ideas, principals, and morals are formed from experience. |
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