Works

#1141

Mahābhārata-Tātparya-Nirṇaya (Mature)

Madhvācārya · 13th century

Interpretive treatise / Epic-philosophical commentary · Hindu Vedanta / Dvaita / Madhva sampradāya

Madhva's 13th-c. interpretive work on the Mahābhārata — establishing the proper Dvaita reading of the epic

25% advaita-vedanta 20% realism 20% hinduism 15% pluralism 10% structuralism 10% mysticism 15% hermeneutics 6% vedanta +5

#1142

Viṣṇu-Tattva-Nirṇaya (Mature)

Madhvācārya · 13th century

Systematic-philosophical treatise · Hindu Vedanta / Dvaita / Madhva sampradāya

Madhva's 13th-c. systematic exposition — the decisive determination of the Dvaita-Vaiṣṇava metaphysical position

30% advaita-vedanta 25% realism 20% hinduism 15% pluralism 10% mysticism 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% dualism 6% vedanta +5

#1143

Tattvodyota (Mature)

Madhvācārya · 13th century

Polemical-philosophical treatise · Hindu Vedanta / Dvaita / Madhva sampradāya

Madhva's 13th-c. polemical work — sustained refutation of Advaita non-dualism

25% advaita-vedanta 25% realism 15% pluralism 10% hinduism 15% analytic-metaphysics 10% dualism 5% mysticism 6% vedanta +5

#1144

The Book of Songs (Shijing) (Early)

Anonymous (traditionally attributed to Confucius as editor) · c. 1000-600 BCE (poems); c. 6th-5th c. BCE (compiled)

Poetry collection / Canonical anthology · Confucianism / Chinese classical canon

Confucian classic c. 1000-600 BCE — 305 odes traditionally compiled by Confucius

30% confucianism 15% historicism 20% aestheticism 15% virtue-ethics 10% communitarianism 10% perennial-philosophy +3

#1145

The Book of Documents (Shujing) (Early)

Anonymous (traditionally attributed to Confucius as editor) · composed in stages c. 1100-600 BCE; compiled c. 6th-5th c. BCE; portions are later forgeries detected in Qing-period scholarship

Historical-political documents anthology / Canonical text · Confucianism / Chinese classical canon

Confucian classic — speeches and proclamations of legendary and early-historical Chinese rulers

30% confucianism 15% historicism 10% communitarianism 15% virtue-ethics 5% civic-republicanism 10% natural-law +3

#1146

The Book of Rites (Liji) (Mid)

Anonymous (composed by various early Confucian writers) · Han dynasty compilation (c. 1st c. BCE) of pre-Qin and Han materials

Ritual-philosophical compendium · Confucianism / Chinese classical canon

Confucian classic — Han-period compendium of ritual descriptions and ethical-philosophical essays

30% confucianism 25% perennial-philosophy 15% communitarianism 20% virtue-ethics 10% aestheticism 5% pragmatism 10% natural-law +4

#1147

The Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu) (Early)

Confucius (traditionally attributed) · 5th c. BCE (traditional); chronicling events 722-481 BCE

Historical chronicle / Canonical text · Confucianism / Chinese classical canon

Confucian classic — chronicle of the state of Lu 722-481 BCE, traditionally attributed to Confucius as compiler

30% confucianism 20% historicism 15% virtue-ethics 10% civic-republicanism 15% hermeneutics 5% communitarianism +3

#1148

A Dance of the Forests (Early)

Wole Soyinka · 1960

Dramatic play · Yoruba-African drama / Anglophone African literature

Soyinka's 1960 Nigerian-Independence play — Yoruba mythology against romantic-pan-African self-congratulation

25% postcolonial-theory 25% animism-relational-indigenous 15% mysticism 15% critical-theory 15% tragedy 10% historicism 5% communitarianism +4

#1149

Kongi's Harvest (Mid)

Wole Soyinka · 1965

Dramatic play / Political satire · Yoruba-African drama / Anglophone African literature

Soyinka's 1965 political satire — the post-Independence African dictator-as-modernist

25% postcolonial-theory 20% animism-relational-indigenous 15% critical-theory 10% tragedy 10% civic-republicanism 10% historicism 10% mysticism +4

#1150

The Open Sore of a Continent (Late)

Wole Soyinka · 1996

Political essays · African political-philosophical essay / Postcolonial criticism

Soyinka's 1996 political essays from exile — Abacha's Nigeria, Saro-Wiwa's execution, the unfinished work of African democracy

25% postcolonial-theory 20% liberalism 15% critical-theory 15% civic-republicanism 10% classical-liberalism 5% cosmopolitanism +3

#1151

You Must Set Forth at Dawn (Late)

Wole Soyinka · 2006

Political memoir / Autobiography · African political-philosophical memoir / Postcolonial autobiography

Soyinka's 2006 political memoir — half a century of Nigerian political-cultural engagement

25% postcolonial-theory 15% critical-theory 15% animism-relational-indigenous 15% liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 10% tragedy 10% historicism +4

#1152

New System (Mature)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1695

Philosophical article · Rationalism / Continental rationalism / Modern philosophy

Leibniz's 1695 essay — first public statement of the doctrine of pre-established harmony

30% rationalism 20% idealism 15% analytic-metaphysics 15% eternalism 10% spinozist-pantheism 10% pluralism 5% naturalism +4

#1153

Correspondence with Arnauld (Mature)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz · 1686-1690

Philosophical correspondence · Rationalism / Continental rationalism / Modern philosophy

Leibniz's 1686-90 correspondence with Arnauld — major source for the development of the mature Leibnizian metaphysics

25% rationalism 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% catholic-thomistic 10% idealism 10% pluralism 10% spinozist-pantheism 10% eternalism +4

#1154

Bidāyat al-Mujtahid (Mature)

Ibn Rushd (Averroes) · 12th century (c. 1167-88)

Comparative juridical treatise · Maliki jurisprudence / Islamic comparative law

Averroes's 12th-c. comparative jurisprudence — the four Sunni law schools compared on substantive legal questions

15% islamic-philosophy-falsafa 25% islam 10% aristotelianism 20% perennial-philosophy 15% rationalism 10% scholasticism 10% virtue-ethics +4

#1155

A Confession (Mid)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy · 1880-82

Spiritual autobiography · Russian religious-philosophical tradition / Christian anarchism

Tolstoy's 1882 spiritual autobiography — the religious-philosophical crisis at age 50 that drove his later Christian-anarchist work

25% anarchism 15% eastern-orthodox-christianity 15% mysticism 15% existentialism 15% pacifism 10% liberal-theology 5% naturalism +4

#1156

What I Believe (Mid)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy · 1883-84

Religious-philosophical treatise · Russian religious-philosophical tradition / Christian anarchism

Tolstoy's 1884 systematic exposition — the Sermon on the Mount as the proper foundation of Christian life

30% anarchism 25% pacifism 10% liberal-theology 10% mysticism 5% eastern-orthodox-christianity 10% existentialism +3

#1157

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Late)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy · 1886

Novella · Russian literature / Christian-anarchist literature

Tolstoy's 1886 novella — the dying magistrate Ivan Ilyich and the failure of conventional life

25% existentialism 20% anarchism 15% mysticism 10% liberal-theology 10% critical-theory 10% romanticism 10% naturalism +4

#1158

Resurrection (Late)

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy · 1889-1899

Novel · Russian literature / Christian-anarchist literature

Tolstoy's 1899 novel — Nekhlyudov's repentance for Maslova, the indictment of state-criminal-justice institutions

25% anarchism 15% pacifism 15% existentialism 15% critical-theory 10% liberal-theology 10% mysticism 10% naturalism +4

#1159

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Mid)

Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 (Hebrew), 2014 (English)

Popular synthetic history · Big-history / Macro-historical synthesis

Harari's 2011 popular-history synthesis — Homo sapiens from cognitive revolution to scientific-capitalist present

20% naturalism 20% evolutionary-psychology 15% critical-theory 15% historicism 10% pessimism 10% cosmopolitanism 5% analytic-metaphysics +4

#1160

21 Lessons for the 21st Century (Mid)

Yuval Noah Harari · 2018

Political-philosophical essays · Big-history / Popular political-technological essay

Harari's 2018 essays — 21 contemporary challenges from artificial intelligence to nationalism to terrorism

15% naturalism 20% critical-theory 20% cosmopolitanism 10% liberalism 15% transhumanism-posthumanism 5% evolutionary-psychology 10% analytic-metaphysics +4

#1161

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks (Late)

Yuval Noah Harari · 2024

Popular synthetic history · Big-history / Information-political-history

Harari's 2024 macro-history of information — from stone-age stories to artificial intelligence

20% critical-theory 20% cybernetics 10% naturalism 15% historicism 10% liberalism 10% transhumanism-posthumanism 10% cosmopolitanism +4

#1162

Sapiens: A Graphic History (Late)

Yuval Noah Harari · 2020 (vol. 1), 2021 (vol. 2), 2024 (vol. 3); — series ongoing

Graphic novel / Adaptation · Big-history / Graphic-novel popularisation

Harari's 2020-24 graphic adaptation of Sapiens with David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave

15% naturalism 15% evolutionary-psychology 15% critical-theory 10% pragmatism 10% pluralism 10% historicism 15% aestheticism +4

#1163

Freedom in Exile (Mid)

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama · 1990

Autobiography · Tibetan Buddhism / Gelug school / Modern Buddhist exile literature

Tenzin Gyatso's 1990 autobiography — childhood in Tibet, Chinese invasion, exile in Dharamsala

25% buddhism 25% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 15% pacifism 10% liberalism 10% cosmopolitanism 10% perennial-philosophy 5% mysticism +4

#1164

Ethics for the New Millennium (Late)

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama · 1999

Practical-ethical treatise · Tibetan Buddhism / Modern secular ethics

Tenzin Gyatso's 1999 secular-ethical proposal — universal ethics independent of religious tradition

20% buddhism 25% virtue-ethics 15% cosmopolitanism 10% liberalism 15% liberal-theology 10% perennial-philosophy 5% naturalism +4

#1165

The Art of Happiness (Late)

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama · 1998

Dialogue / Practical-ethical synthesis · Tibetan Buddhism / Practical-philosophical-psychological tradition

Tenzin Gyatso and Howard C. Cutler's 1998 dialogue — practical happiness from a secular-Buddhist perspective

25% buddhism 25% virtue-ethics 15% cognitive-science 10% perennial-philosophy 10% naturalism 5% liberal-theology 10% pragmatism +4

#1166

My Land and My People (Early)

Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama · 1962

Autobiography · Tibetan Buddhism / Gelug school / Modern Buddhist exile literature

Tenzin Gyatso's 1962 first autobiography — earliest authoritative English-language account of the Tibetan crisis and exile

20% buddhism 25% tibetan-vajrayana-buddhism 15% pacifism 10% liberalism 15% cosmopolitanism 5% historicism +3

#1167

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Early)

Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1910-11 (drafted), 1915 (published)

Dramatic monologue / Lyric poem · Anglo-American modernism / Modern poetry

Eliot's 1915 dramatic monologue — early modernist breakthrough; the inhibited consciousness of J. Alfred Prufrock

30% modernism 15% existentialism 10% romanticism 10% critical-theory 10% historicism 15% aestheticism 10% mysticism +4

#1168

Ash-Wednesday (Mid)

Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1927-1930

Long lyric poem in six parts · Anglo-American modernism / Anglo-Catholic religious poetry

Eliot's 1930 long poem — first major work after his 1927 conversion to Anglo-Catholicism

20% modernism 15% anglican-broad-church 15% catholic-thomistic 15% mysticism 10% conservatism 10% existentialism +3

#1169

Murder in the Cathedral (Mid)

Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1935

Verse drama · Anglo-American modernism / Anglo-Catholic religious drama

Eliot's 1935 verse drama — the 1170 martyrdom of Thomas Becket; church-state confrontation as religious-political tragedy

20% anglican-broad-church 15% catholic-thomistic 20% modernism 15% tragedy 10% conservatism 10% mysticism 10% historicism +4

#1170

The Idea of a Christian Society (Mid)

Thomas Stearns Eliot · 1939

Prose lectures / Religious-political essay · Anglo-Catholic / Religious-cultural conservatism

Eliot's 1939 prose lectures — proposal for a properly-Christian organisation of British political-cultural life

25% conservatism 15% anglican-broad-church 10% liberal-theology 10% critical-theory 15% communitarianism 10% natural-law 5% mysticism 10% historicism +5

#1171

Just As I Am (Late)

William Franklin "Billy" Graham · 1997

Autobiography · American evangelical Protestantism / Southern Baptist tradition

Billy Graham's 1997 autobiography — the life of the twentieth century's most prominent evangelical preacher

30% evangelical-protestantism 5% liberal-theology 10% classical-liberalism 10% conservatism 10% virtue-ethics 10% cosmopolitanism 10% civic-republicanism 6% biblicism 6% baptist-southern +6

#1172

How to Be Born Again (Mid)

William Franklin "Billy" Graham · 1977

Evangelistic-pastoral treatise · American evangelical Protestantism / Southern Baptist tradition

Graham's 1977 evangelistic-pastoral statement — the new-birth doctrine systematically expounded

30% evangelical-protestantism 15% virtue-ethics 10% conservatism 5% liberal-theology 6% biblicism 6% baptist-southern +3

#1173

Approaching Hoofbeats (Mid)

William Franklin "Billy" Graham · 1983

Apocalyptic-prophetic study / Popular eschatology · American evangelical Protestantism / Popular eschatology

Graham's 1983 apocalyptic-prophetic study — the four horsemen of Revelation as warning to the contemporary world

25% evangelical-protestantism 25% christianity 10% conservatism 5% cosmopolitanism 10% pessimism 6% biblicism 6% baptist-southern +4

#1174

The Journey: How to Live by Faith in an Uncertain World (Late)

William Franklin "Billy" Graham · 2006

Practical-religious treatise · American evangelical Protestantism / Southern Baptist tradition

Graham's 2006 late-life summary of practical-Christian living in an uncertain world

25% evangelical-protestantism 25% virtue-ethics 5% liberal-theology 10% mysticism 10% pragmatism 5% perennial-philosophy 10% consequentialism 6% biblicism 6% baptist-southern +6

#1175

Quodlibetal Questions (Mature)

William of Ockham · c. 1322-1325

Disputed questions / Scholastic quodlibet · Scholasticism / Late-medieval nominalism / Franciscan tradition

Ockham's c.1322-25 Quodlibeta — seven sets of disputed questions on the major topics of philosophy and theology

25% scholasticism 30% empiricism 15% analytic-metaphysics 10% aristotelianism 5% catholic-thomistic 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 8% nominalism +4

#1176

Treatise on Predestination, Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents (Mature)

William of Ockham · c. 1321-24

Theological-philosophical treatise · Scholasticism / Late-medieval nominalism / Franciscan tradition

Ockham's c.1321-24 treatise — divine foreknowledge and creaturely freedom; the foundational late-medieval treatment

20% scholasticism 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% empiricism 10% catholic-thomistic 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 10% aristotelianism 8% nominalism +4

#1177

Dialogue on the Power of the Pope and the Emperor (Late)

William of Ockham · c. 1334-1346

Political-philosophical dialogue · Scholasticism / Late-medieval political philosophy / Franciscan tradition

Ockham's c.1334-46 massive political dialogue — late-medieval church-state and Franciscan-poverty controversies

15% scholasticism 15% liberalism 10% classical-liberalism 15% civic-republicanism 15% natural-law 15% catholic-thomistic 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% empiricism 8% nominalism +6

#1178

Commentary on the Sentences (Early)

William of Ockham · c. 1317-1319 (Oxford lectures)

Theological commentary / Scholastic Sentences-commentary · Scholasticism / Late-medieval nominalism / Franciscan tradition

Ockham's c.1317-19 Oxford lectures on the Sentences — foundational systematic theological text

25% scholasticism 25% empiricism 15% analytic-metaphysics 10% aristotelianism 10% catholic-thomistic 5% kantian-transcendental-idealism 8% nominalism +4

#1179

Formal Logic (Early)

Arthur Norman Prior · 1955 (1st ed.), 1962 (2nd ed.)

Logic textbook · Analytic philosophy / Mathematical-philosophical logic

Prior's 1955 textbook — comprehensive presentation of modern formal logic with historical and philosophical context

30% analytic-metaphysics 25% logicism 15% historicism 10% aristotelianism 5% stoicism 10% scholasticism +3

#1180

Past, Present and Future (Mature)

Arthur Norman Prior · 1967

Logic-philosophical treatise · Analytic philosophy / Tense logic / Philosophy of time

Prior's 1967 systematic statement — tense logic, the modern logic of temporal language

25% analytic-metaphysics 20% logicism 15% presentism 10% historicism 5% aristotelianism 10% realism +3

#1181

Papers on Time and Tense (Late)

Arthur Norman Prior · 1968

Philosophical essay collection · Analytic philosophy / Tense logic / Philosophy of time

Prior's 1968 essay collection — major papers on the logic and philosophy of time

25% analytic-metaphysics 20% logicism 10% presentism 10% historicism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% naturalism +3

#1182

Objects of Thought (Late)

Arthur Norman Prior · 1970-71 (drafted), 1971 (posthumous publication)

Philosophical treatise · Analytic philosophy / Philosophy of mind / Philosophy of language

Prior's 1971 posthumous work — propositions, intentionality, and the philosophy of mind

25% analytic-metaphysics 25% philosophy-of-mind 20% philosophy-of-language 15% logicism 10% realism 5% empiricism +3

#1183

Atlantis (Mid)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount) · 1967-69 (recorded), 1969 (released)

Studio album / Avant-garde jazz · Avant-garde jazz / Cosmic-jazz / Afrofuturism

Sun Ra's 1969 album — electronic-Moog experiments and Afrofuturist mythology in cosmic-jazz form

30% afrofuturism 20% mysticism 20% black-radical-tradition 15% aestheticism 10% spinozist-pantheism 10% hermeticism 5% critical-theory +4

#1184

Lanquidity (Late)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount) · 1978 (recorded August 17, 1978; released 1978)

Studio album / Avant-garde jazz · Avant-garde jazz / Cosmic-jazz / Afrofuturism

Sun Ra's 1978 album — late-cosmic-jazz fusion of free-jazz, funk, and electronic textures

25% afrofuturism 20% aestheticism 20% black-radical-tradition 15% mysticism 10% pragmatism 5% spinozist-pantheism 10% communitarianism +4

#1185

The Magic City (Mid)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount) · 1965 (recorded), 1966 (released)

Studio album / Avant-garde jazz · Avant-garde jazz / Cosmic-jazz / Afrofuturism

Sun Ra's 1966 album — major early-cosmic-jazz statement; the title-track's 27-minute side-long composition

30% afrofuturism 25% aestheticism 20% black-radical-tradition 15% mysticism 10% critical-theory 10% communitarianism 5% historicism +4

#1186

Sun Ra Discography (Late)

Sun Ra (Herman Poole Blount) · c. 1957-1993 (recordings); compiled discography in scholarship 1990s-onward

Discography / Recording catalogue · Avant-garde jazz / Cosmic-jazz / Afrofuturism

The Sun Ra Saturn-label discography — c. 100+ albums across c. 1957-1993

25% afrofuturism 25% aestheticism 20% black-radical-tradition 15% mysticism 10% communitarianism 10% historicism 5% pragmatism +4

#1187

The Great World-System (Megas Diakosmos) (Mature)

Democritus of Abdera · c. 430 BCE

Cosmological treatise (lost) · Greek atomism / Pre-Socratic natural philosophy

Democritus's c. 430 BCE lost cosmological masterwork — foundation of Greek atomism

30% materialism 15% naturalism 15% classical-greek 10% analytic-metaphysics 10% epicureanism 10% pluralism +3

#1188

On the Mind (Mature)

Democritus of Abdera · c. 420 BCE

Cognitive-psychological treatise (lost) · Greek atomism / Pre-Socratic natural philosophy

Democritus's c. 420 BCE treatise — atomic theory of perception and the soul

25% materialism 15% naturalism 15% classical-greek 15% philosophy-of-mind 10% epicureanism 10% realism +3

#1189

On Cheerfulness (Mature)

Democritus of Abdera · c. 420 BCE

Ethical treatise (lost) · Greek atomism / Pre-Socratic ethics

Democritus's c. 420 BCE ethical treatise — euthumia (cheerfulness) as the proper end of human life

15% materialism 15% classical-greek 20% epicureanism 15% stoicism 20% virtue-ethics 5% naturalism +3

#1190

On Forms (Peri Ideōn) (Mature)

Democritus of Abdera · c. 430 BCE

Physical-philosophical treatise (lost) · Greek atomism / Pre-Socratic natural philosophy

Democritus's c. 430 BCE treatise — atomic shapes (ideai) as the source of perceptible qualities

30% materialism 15% naturalism 15% classical-greek 10% realism 10% epicureanism 10% analytic-metaphysics +3

#1191

Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (Late)

Mary Wollstonecraft · 1795-96 (composed), 1796 (published)

Travel letters / Proto-Romantic prose · English Enlightenment / Proto-Romanticism / Early feminism

Wollstonecraft's 1796 travel-letters — proto-Romantic reflection from her Scandinavian business journey

25% romanticism 20% feminism 10% liberal-theology 10% classical-liberalism 10% liberalism 10% critical-theory 10% existentialism 5% aestheticism +5

#1192

Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (Late)

Mary Wollstonecraft · 1796-97 (composed, unfinished), 1798 (posthumous publication)

Novel (unfinished) · English Enlightenment / Proto-feminist fiction

Wollstonecraft's unfinished 1798 posthumous novel — fictional exposition of the legal and social wrongs done to women

30% feminism 15% liberalism 10% classical-liberalism 15% critical-theory 10% romanticism 5% historicism 10% existentialism 5% liberal-theology +5

#1193

The Book of Changes (Yi Jing) (Early)

Anonymous (traditionally Fu Xi for hexagrams; King Wen and Duke of Zhou for line-statements; Confucius for the Ten Wings commentaries) · Hexagrams: legendary, pre-1000 BCE; line-statements: c. 1000-750 BCE; Ten Wings commentaries: c. 500-100 BCE

Divinatory-philosophical text / Hexagram-commentary system · Confucianism / Chinese classical canon / Chinese divination

Confucian classic — divinatory-philosophical text of 64 hexagrams; fifth of the Five Classics

25% confucianism 20% taoism 15% virtue-ethics 15% process-philosophy 10% mysticism 10% natural-law 5% analytical-psychology-jungian +4

#1194

Original Stories from Real Life (Early)

Mary Wollstonecraft · 1788

Children's educational stories · English Enlightenment / Rational-educational tradition

Wollstonecraft's 1788 children's book — moral-educational stories illustrating practical virtues

20% feminism 15% classical-liberalism 15% liberal-theology 20% virtue-ethics 10% liberalism 10% civic-republicanism 5% cognitive-science 5% romanticism +5

#1195

Cosmos (Mid)

Carl Sagan · 1980

Popular science · Scientific naturalism / Twentieth-century popular science

Sagan's 1980 popular cosmology — book companion to the PBS television series that defined late-twentieth-century scientific popularisation

30% naturalism 10% analytic-metaphysics 15% evolutionary-psychology 15% cosmopolitanism 10% liberalism 10% pragmatism 10% historicism +4

#1196

Pale Blue Dot (Late)

Carl Sagan · 1994

Popular science / Cosmic-philosophical reflection · Scientific naturalism / Twentieth-century popular science

Sagan's 1994 reflection on the Voyager 1 photograph of Earth as a pale blue dot — humanity's cosmic position

25% naturalism 20% cosmopolitanism 10% liberalism 15% transhumanism-posthumanism 10% evolutionary-psychology 10% pragmatism 5% pessimism 5% mysticism +5

#1197

The Dragons of Eden (Mid)

Carl Sagan · 1977

Popular science · Scientific naturalism / Twentieth-century popular science

Sagan's 1977 Pulitzer-winning study of human cognitive evolution

25% naturalism 25% evolutionary-psychology 20% cognitive-science 10% analytic-metaphysics 5% critical-theory 10% historicism 5% pragmatism +4

#1198

The Demon-Haunted World (Late)

Carl Sagan · 1995

Popular science / Philosophy of science · Scientific naturalism / Twentieth-century popular science

Sagan's 1995 defence of scientific rationality against pseudoscience — the "candle in the dark" of disciplined inquiry

25% naturalism 20% analytic-metaphysics 15% liberalism 15% pragmatism 10% classical-liberalism 10% kantian-transcendental-idealism 5% civic-republicanism +4

#1199

Evangelii Gaudium (Late)

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) · 2013 (November 24)

Apostolic exhortation · Catholic-Thomistic / Latin American liberation-influenced Catholic teaching

Pope Francis's 2013 apostolic exhortation — the programmatic statement of his pontificate

25% catholic-thomistic 20% liberation-theology 15% critical-theory 10% communitarianism 10% virtue-ethics 10% liberalism 10% cosmopolitanism 6% catholicism +5

#1200

Laudato Si' (Late)

Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio) · 2015 (May 24)

Papal encyclical · Catholic-Thomistic / Catholic environmental social teaching

Pope Francis's 2015 environmental encyclical — the first papal encyclical on ecological-climate questions

20% catholic-thomistic 25% deep-ecology 15% liberation-theology 15% critical-theory 10% cosmopolitanism 10% liberalism 6% catholicism +4