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Excluding religious texts, what is the single most important book ever written?
I don’t care about accessibility to the masses, only about the magnitude of the idea(s) contained within

>> No.18566997

>>18566905
Das Kapital unironically

>> No.18567012

>>18566997
Hegel was more influential

>> No.18567017

>>18566905
my diary desu

>> No.18567025

Sextus Empiricus – Outlines of Pyrrhonism

>> No.18567034

>>18566905
Newton's Principia laid the ground for a whole series of unholy machinal developments involving cynical manipulation of 'forces' and general reduction of reality to dumb intersecting matter. 'but it works' yelps the fizzy-souled 'scientist', yes it works and you can also compel behavior by torture, simply sneed

>> No.18567520

>>18566905
Depends on the subject, but I'd say Kants Critique of pure reason and, as some other anon pointed out, Newtons Principia.

>> No.18567546

>>18566905
The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times

>> No.18568700

>>18567034
B A S E D

>> No.18568716
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