Two Treatises of Government
1689 · 464 pages
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.
★ 7.4
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The Nine Cloud Dream
1687 · 288 pages
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.
★ 6.4
Discourse on Metaphysics
1686 · 84 pages
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.
★ 6.3