1680s
Showing 37 works across all media from the 1680s
Two Treatises of Government
People are born free and equal, Locke argues, own what their labor makes, and create government by consent. One that breaks the trust may be thrown out. Jefferson took the argument whole.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
The Nine Cloud Dream
Korea's supreme classical novel banishes a young monk, undone by eight fairies on a bridge, into a life of examinations, armies and love, granted in full so it can be seen through.
Discourse on Metaphysics
Leibniz answers Descartes and Spinoza with a universe of self-contained substances, each carrying its whole history and future inside its own concept and mirroring the world from where it stands.
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia
Ascanius draws his bow on a tame stag, the shot that starts a war in the Aeneid, and Claude paints it as a calm golden evening.
There is a pleasure sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know!
Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.
For present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.