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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Leviathan | Thomas Hobbes,published in 1651,name derives from the biblical Leviathan, argues for a social contract and rule by an absolute sovereign. |
| The Republic | Plato, Socratic dialogue book,written during the Peloponnesian War,The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society. |
| Common Sense | Thomas Paine, Thirteen Colonies ,fight for independence,summer of 1776, argument for freedom |
| Principia mathematicia | Isaac Newton,know as Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica,work in three books ,forming the foundation of classical mechanics |
| The Prince | Niccoló Machiavelli,a political treatise ,not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death |
| The Social Contract | Jean-Jacques Rousseau，a political community ， helped inspire political reforms，in Europe, especially in France |
| An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | Adam Smith， magnum opus of the Scottish economist，Economics，published 9 March 1776，during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution |
| J'accuse | Zola，Open Letter， published on 13 January 1898，newspaper L'Aurore，accused the government of anti-Semitism |
| The Elements | Euclid，math, in Alexandria,consisting of 13 books, elementary number theory, 300 BC |
| Coming of Age in Samoa | Margaret Mead, American anthropologist, First published in 1928,controversy on questions pertaining to society, culture and science |
| The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, political manuscripts，Marxism， |
| Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God | Jonathan Edwards,sermon written,in Northampton, Massachusetts, vivid imagery of Hell with observations of the world and citations of the scripture |
| The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money | English economist John Maynard, Keynes,Published in February 1936, |
| Pragmatism | William James,Philosophy, rejection of the idea that the function of thought is to describe,contend that most philosophical topics |
| Book of Mormon | Joseph Smith,published in March 1830 believe contains writings of ancient prophets ， |
| Qur‘an | Muhammad，literally meaning "the recitation,“ central religious text of Islam， Muslims believe to be a revelation from God |
| Meditations | Marcus Aurelius，, literally "thoughts/writings addressed to himself"，series of personal writing，setting forth his ideas on Stoic philosophy. |
| On The Origin of Species | Charles Darwin，published on 24 November 1859，foundation of evolutionary biology， sixth edition of 1872。 |
| Ethics | also known as moral philosophy， studies the moral behavior in humans and how one should act， |
| Rig Veda | ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns，counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas. |
| The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism | Max Weber,German sociologist, economist, and politician, composed in 1904 and 1905, |
| Apology | Plato, speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC, |
| Utilitarianism | John Stuart Mill,philosophical defence of utilitarianism in ethics, published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861,The essay is divided into five chapters, |
| I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou， African-American writer ，first in a seven-volume series， autobiography，1969 |
| Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant， one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy.1781， |
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