Comments on: Top 10 Books that Changed the World

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:24:34 +0000

There is a well-known book from the early 70′s that had its “15 Minutes Of Fame” which left me screwed up after I read it, and that was “Future Shock”, by Alvin Toffler

By: Raskolnikov says Zarathutra Monsieur Mersault

Raskolnikov says Zarathutra Monsieur Mersault — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:12:57 +0000

What Kind of a List is This? It is revolting that you put in Ayn Rand and forgot a vast horde of philosophers in your I don’t know, if this sounds insulting American ignorance. Ayn Rand! I mean she is good in Fountainhead, but 68 page diatribes and monologues in a book are hardly ever read by anyone who is not already a devout objectivist, a philosophy which is by the way extremely flawed, and even considered by many philosophy connoisseurs as vulgar and flawed. I would even complain that it was sort of cheating to put religious works in ‘books that changed the worl’, but that is still fine. but to forget Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus, Kafka, Dostoevsky, Freud and the ilk is appalling!

By: Another 10 Books That Changed The World

Another 10 Books That Changed The World — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:57:21 +0000

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By: cool bro

cool bro — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:29:31 +0000

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By: XoxoAutumn

XoxoAutumn — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:58:24 +0000

No doubt there are people outside of the United Sates who are familiar with Rand, but from personal experience and knowledge I must agree with Max-Rand is obscure outside U.S.

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 19:01:08 +0000

I just want to put my input into this list. How about “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” by Harriet Beecher Stowe. There is an anecdote relating to this book. Ms. Stowe had a meet and greet with President Abraham Lincoln just as the Civil War began. Lincoln extended his hand to Ms. Stowe in order to shake her hand and said, “I would like to shake the hand of the lady who is mostly responsible for starting the Civil War”

By: Anupam

Anupam — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:47:58 +0000

So did Voltaire, John Locke, Thoreau and many many others before her. It was not a concept that she created you know.

She did more bad than good, in my opinion, by oversimplifying and making it too easy to digest, without the need for any critical thinking.

A good philosophy always lets you decide for yourself, lets you make up your mind yourself.

By: Anupam

Anupam — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:41:39 +0000

Oh please! Not this again! stop with your trite reasoning! Get your head out of your ass and think critically for once. Religion is just a scapegoat. People kill each other – if you have religion or not. Its not about religion its about dominion and control. Religion was used as a tool, just as wealth was used for World war I and II.

You need to learn to think for yourself and not make up your mind by idiots like Richard Dawkins and such.

By: Anupam

Anupam — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:36:38 +0000

Indeed. These guys need to read the classics of 19th and early 20th century to realize this. But they just don’t want to read them.

By: Anupam

Anupam — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:34:53 +0000

Main Kampf was the effect of Nietzsche’s ideas, not the cause for anything.