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Kluna
04-05-2006, 10:25 AM
I was thinking about writers who dedicated all or some of their works to idea of better society, better sistem etc.
And I rembered: Aristotel with his Politics, Plato with Republic, Hobbes's Leviathan, More's Utopy, Lock... and im stuck :)
Can you continue with some fresh ideas?

jon1jt
04-05-2006, 10:37 AM
Augustine - City of God; Thomas Aquinas - On Law, Morality, and Politics; Rousseau, The Social Compact, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality; Marx, The Communist Manifesto; Thomas More, Utopia; Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws; Oliver Wendell Holmes, Law and the Inner Self; Madison/Hamilton/Jay, The Federalist Papers; John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Justice as Fairness, and The Law of Peoples; Thomas Jefferson, Collected Works; Ayn Rand; Atlas Shrugged

....that's a start

Stanislaw
04-05-2006, 10:58 AM
Douglass Adams Hitch hikers guide to the galaxy...

Kluna
04-05-2006, 11:55 AM
@ jon1jt yes, some of those occure to me, tnx, but i have to find more :)

@stanislaw hehe i forgot about that, tnx