Critique of Judgment
1790 · 448 pages
Beauty sits in no object, yet you expect everyone to agree with you. Kant grounds that strange demand, and shows why a raging ocean enlarges the person watching it rather than crushing him.
★ 7.5
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Reflections on the Revolution in France
1790 · 400 pages
Modern conservatism begins here, in Burke's fury at revolutionaries who tore down old institutions for the sake of an abstraction. Society is a partnership between the dead, the living, and the unborn.
★ 7.1
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
1790 · 441 pages
Seventeen and running from his apprenticeship, Franklin walks into Philadelphia carrying three bread rolls. He later ruled a daily chart of thirteen virtues, and every American self-improvement book works from that design.
★ 6.7