Robinson Crusoe
1719 · 304 pages
Twenty-eight years on an island near the Orinoco, counting days on a post and keeping his own moral ledgers, until a footprint appears in the sand. The English novel grew from this.
★ 7.0
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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
1710 · 217 pages
Nothing exists but minds and what minds perceive, Berkeley argues, and matter is a word philosophers cannot cash. God does the perceiving that keeps your furniture there once you leave the room.
★ 6.3
Philosophical Essays
1710 · 366 pages
Reality is made of monads, mind-like simple substances with no windows, whose perceptions God synchronized in advance. His conclusion that ours is the optimal world drew Voltaire's ridicule in Candide.
★ 6.3