11 BOOKS WHICH SHAPED THE WORLD

[@Michajeru]

I learn from every video of yours. You really hold my interest.

[@sveatch40]

Bravo Tristan! Two thumbs up for your wonderful summaries of great books! Please keep it up! I will keep coming back to your channel. Wonderful.

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[@victoriacostina9596]

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[@razanaljiryes7808]

Tristan you are more well read and more well spoken than any professor. Can you please do a second part for fiction books . And if you can do books in the Eastern canon. I truely appreciate your videos I have learned a lot from you

[@4thlinemaniac356]

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[@stefashaler8340]

@@4thlinemaniac356 When you say, "Pffffft" do you imply the list is invalid or simply that there are other influential books? Tristan made it clear there are other influential books. Your "Pfffft" strikes like a knife. How lovely it would be to read your suggestions if they weren't offered rudely.

[@4thlinemaniac356]

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[@e98-l2q]

Would love to see a list solely focused on fictional works! Great video as always.

[@madiantin]

1:20 Elements - Euclid 3:00. The Republic - Plato 7:00. The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle 9:15 The Complete Works of Shakespeare 12:10 The Holy Bible specifically KJV 15:00 The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 18:20 The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine 21:33 Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill 24:30 On The Origin of Species - Charles Darwin 27:05 The Communist Manifesto - Marx and Engels 30:30 Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe

[@Yesica1993]

I read Uncle Tom's Cabin earlier this year (or late last year) for the very first time. I began it as one of those, "I SHOULD read this", chores/projects. I was surprised at how much I loved it. I could barely put it down. I want to do a re-read soon. (Once I'm done with the 348384264926463246 books I'm currently reading and the other 94732874823748237648364 that I want to read. Sigh.)

[@timelston4260]

I've read it three times, at different stages of life, and I've cried a waterfall every time. It's the most emotionally evocative books I've ever read.

[@kitan94828]

Love your videos :) Been watching you for a while. You have a talent for analyzing and speaking about literature. Did you study Literature for a Master? or even a Ph.D.? I am curious about what topic you chose for your thesis (if you did study) haha.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you, Kita. I do not have formal training in literature. I learned to read very young, and my father encouraged careful thinking and public speaking through my youth. For my whole life, I have taken the opportunity to listen to lectures and have deep conversations with others. I have so much to learn and think about still🙂😀❤️

[@kathleencraine7335]

A well-thought out list. Amazing that more than half of your choices were originally written in English. I would only add one work to your list (so a nice dozen?): Rousseau's On the Social Contract.

[@b.rosannaruffo551]

Terrific video, thanks Tristan

[@suzannegonzalez2630]

Great video Tristan! Thanks so much for your explanations of each books importance to society. You aren't exaggerating when you say some are dry reading. I have tried all of them & still chopping away @ them til my brain finally processes them, hopefully! 😀

[@carlosarocha341]

Tristan, you are great. Why did you not consider in your canon Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thanks, Carlos. Actually, I deed consider Newton's Principia. It definitely belongs. As I said, there are lots of books which should go on this list. I'll do another one of these.

[@robertcrompton2733]

Great list! Harriet Beecher Stowe surprised me!

[@xaviercrain7336]

I know you are trying to stay within translations that are recognizable. But Plato’s text is called Politeia which is constitutions. He is not just talking about Republic…It was the Judeo-Christian world that has successfully overwritten Plato’s text. It was translated by the Arabs first as constitutions. And their translation was put into monastery cellars came to mold and the Christian translation has continued to last.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thanks Xavier, that's really good to know. I appreciate it.🙂👍

[@timelston4260]

Wow, I guessed all of them except Euclid, Paine, and Mill. Good list! I was also guessing either Spinoza (materialism) or Hume (skepticism), Kant or Hegel (idealism, but Marx was in that tradition), Sartre (existentialism) or Derrida (deconstructionism), Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, or Madison (philosophy of the modern state, but Plato was foundational), Newton or Bacon (early modern science), or James Watson (The Double Helix).

[@RebeccaEdwardsJamesEdwards]

Wonderful list! I put several of them on my list to read. I wonder if the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson for influencing much of the modern day environmental movement.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Silent Spring was actually on my shortlist 😀👍

[@RebeccaEdwardsJamesEdwards]

Fantastic! Great to know I'm on the same wavelength with the caliber of books on this list you compiled. :) @@tristanandtheclassics6538

[@JonStallings]

Our words really do wield a lot of power

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Amen to that!

[@Cantbuyathrill]

A pleasure to listen to. Greetings from Miami

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thank you. And greetings from Wales, UK 😀👍

[@missjenny1953]

Wonderfully interesting, great video

[@beethoven2351]

An amazing list! I think I'd have to make room somewhere for the Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. Yes, it's a difficult read for the layman, but its influence on science, mathematics, and the modern world is incalculable.

[@mtnshelby7059]

Very well done as always. For those who are curious about these works, almost all are available as a chapter or essay in an older basic introduction to literature or classics book available in a second hand store. Then decide which, if any, you'd explore in the full version. Here Im admitting I didnt progress beyond a chapter...but I really must read Stowe, thanks for reminding me.

[@gaylaaustin7468]

This is just excellent-thank you

[@nur-e-diphamuttaqi]

Tristan, could kindly do videos on BOOKS WHICH SHAPED say a certain discipline: BOOKS WHICH SHAPED PSYCHOLOGY BOOKS WHICH SHAPED PHILOSOPHY BOOKS WHICH SHAPED ARCHITECTURE BOOKS WHICH SHAPED POLITICAL SCIENCE AND GOVERNANCE, etc etc etc...

[@justonefyx]

It's amazing how the easily offended need to be constantly reminded that the speaker is just talking about what the book says, and is not saying what the book says is true. If you're one of those people, what a miserable life you live.

[@4thlinemaniac356]

Wuthering Heights changed so much for so many @ Intelligence Squated channel video The Queens Of English Literature Debate Austen Vs Bronye.

[@AmalijaKomar]

This is an important video. Love history and this is a part of it Personally I'm impressed by ideas which is more subjective for me Well, if we talk about ideas, we are back to Plato 😊

[@apollonia6656]

Cicero must have read The Art of Rhetoric by Aristotle.

[@brian9438]

I wonder if Adam Smith ever thought there was anything wrong with his name.

[@johnjabez6300]

Can a list be done solely on fiction books alone which shaped our world

[@rishabhaniket1952]

Principle of Mathematics by Newton?? Prince by Machiavelli? Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun?

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

And the list could go on. Analects by Confucious; The Quran; Virgil's Aeniad.😀 I think I mentioned at the outset that there are loads of books which have shaped us. I think I'll have to do a series of videos😅

[@purplesprigs]

Earlier this year, I felt compelled to read the "most important book of the 20th century": Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's "The Gulag Archipelago." I do not recommend it. I'll save you the trouble - everyone with half a brain, seen as a threat by Stalin, was imprisoned, tortured, executed. This included every single person who had "seen the West." This meant that every Russian solder who had fought in Germany was included. When you read a description that says Solzhenitsyn was imprisoned for criticizing Stalin - no! It was merely an excuse. The (almost) funny thing was the lengths to which the authorities went to prove that someone had committed a crime against the proletariat in their kangaroo courts.

[@richarddelanet]

Just for accuracy, the mention of the workhouse at about 23mins is surely facile prejudice (the version that is merely a bias with insufficient knowledge). Please believe me no offense intended, just a plain (mean?) observation. The workhouses worked with PR, as a deterrent. Only about 16% of all those unemployed and eligible were actually present inside workhouses, the rest remained in receipt of out-relief.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thanks for this Richard, you are right. I actually mis-spoke at that point and was thinking more of factories than the actual workhouse institution. Ì think you can hear me stumble as I try to find my words😀 I'm pleased you caught this, it was a worthy correction. 😀👍

[@richarddelanet]

@@tristanandtheclassics6538 I am always pleased to contribute to the #BookTube conversation, especially via decent and magnanimous content makers such as yourself - there are surely not half as many as there might be ?!! (dare I say it).

[@genemcn3579]

Bravo.

[@Astyanaz]

I question Uncle Tom's Cabin as it only affected America.

[@Cantbuyathrill]

I totally agree as to the limited influential effects of Uncle Tom's Cabin outside of America (and even in America itself not even as much as Tristan makes it out to be. NOTE: Is Tristan aware that for a while now there has been a witchy fascist woke-propelled book-banning/burning in this great country of gobblingly consumerist ignoramuses and their culturally deficient representatives in The Congress?Is he aware that this book is one of those being kicked to the curb in this great proudly American Inquisition? But let's face it: It wouldnt be safely PC or woke-approved for Tristan not to have preemptively included not just a woman but a black woman in this stifling "patriarchical" (is that the word they are using now? I think it is) infrastructure of ours. Having said that, Uncle Tom's Cabin should again be required reading in our schools -a big ask considering that the very words "Uncle Tom" now trigger a panic amongst the oversensitive, gluten/peanut allergic SJWs.

[@markhoulsby359]

Turn it up to 11.

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[@justonefyx]

You know our society is sick when saying it's controversial to include the Bible in a list of great books. I bet the people that think this book is controversial to be added to a list, would have no problem with adding the Koran or any other holy book to the list.

[@Yesica1993]

They're also demonstrating they've never read it.

[@timelston4260]

The Bible has a lot of ethical problems, but it deserves a place on this list, by far. I wouldn't put the Koran on a list of Western influences, but certainly on a Northern African, Middle Easter, and Central Asian one.

[@JayReacio]

@@timelston4260The Bible clashes with modernity’s “ethics” , I would disagree that it has ethical problems, the “problems” only appear if you presuppose modern ethics are somehow more valid than those in the Bible

[@timelston4260]

@@JayReacio The Bible's ethics clash with themselves. God gets to do whatever he wants, and no ethic any part of the Bible imposes on humans gets to question him. He gets to command filicide and genocide, favor a specific race, throw people into everlasting torment, demand adoration, everything a psychopath might do. While he acts like an utter narcissist, those writing on his behalf insist he is loving. While, yes, the behavior of the biblical God does clash with normally experienced human ethics, more importantly it clashes with the better ethics contained in the Bible itself. Those whose religious commitments require them not to see this refuse to see it.

[@blandingscastle3729]

Should be titled Books that shaped the Western world. There is something called 'Eastern ' literature too in case your lordship hasn't noticed.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

You are completely right, and I tried to own that in the opening sentences. These are books of Western origin that have shaped the world at large. A video could easily be made from books from other hemispheres, too. 😀👍

[@lchauk9518]

A very petty question: why do you (and many others) call Darwin’s book “The Origin of the Species” when there is no “the” in front of species??

[@dannil9878]

I would consider better audio. This is insufferable

[@gaylaaustin7468]

Go away

[@ednorton47]

In 1860, nearly every African American enjoyed free housing, free food, free clothing, and free health care. In just a few years, they had lost all of that.

[@michaelricketson1365]

How were those things free?

[@rosalind3053]

If they were fairly paid for their work and given decent living and working conditions and then given food, clothing and health care as a bonus, then you might be able to say those things were free. As for using the word "enjoyed " I cannot believe that a thinking, feeling human being could ever use that word in connection to slavery. No freedom, no pay, no justice or protection from the law, beatings, torture, separation from loved ones. Don't you dare tell me there is any enjoyment in that.

[@dqan7372]

Good list! Looking forward to part two. Eleven books that changed literature would be good too. Maybe you did that already; I forgot to look. Wouldn't necessarily be the same as greatest lit; some could be forgotten failures.

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Excellent idea, Dqan.

[@nicholasblakiston6297]

Nice pun using a book on geometry as the first on your list that "shaped" the world. I'm not sure if that was intentional.

[@Cantbuyathrill]

Not just a pun but also a good ANGLE.

[@Cantbuyathrill]

He really DISSECTS the subject into digestible POINTS.

[@tommonk7651]

Great addition of Uncle Tom's Cabin. I was going to suggest this one if you had left it off. I might suggest Meditations by Marcus Aurelius; Don Quixote by Cervantes - perhaps the first novel; Newton's Principia; Mein Kampf by Hitler - an awful, poorly written, justification for Naziism that was undoubtedly influential; and there are some other influential political treatises by Voltaire and others. I would have to sit down and think about some others, as there are so many....

[@Yesica1993]

I read Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time this year and loved it so much!

[@tommonk7651]

@@Yesica1993 It is such an important work.

[@stefanyblyn7160]

Hello Tristan, I am finding all your videos very rewarding. Regarding these 11 - what numerical order would you recommend as a TBR. I am a senior citizen - so not with decades ahead of me I have read the KJV and uncle Tom’s Cabin. What would you suggest next for someone who is working towards being well read?

[@Cantbuyathrill]

On The Wealth of Nations is truly heavy-weight reading. If it aint Scottttish itt's ccrapppp!!!

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

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[@timelston4260]

Corn, corn, and more corn! I'll read the abbreviated version next time.

[@gommine]

You keep making me add more books to my 'To Read' list.

[@stefashaler8340]

Brilliant. Thank you!

[@EileenBrown-bb2cd]

Shakespeare - we are such stuff as dreams are made on (not of) Darwin - On the Origin of Species (not “the” species)

[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Spot on. Thank you 😀

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[@tristanandtheclassics6538]

Thanks Bloochoob, it's a pleasure making you acquaintance

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[@racheldemain1940]

What about The Prince by Machiavelli?. That is a book that has shaped the world. Some of these book i have not heard of. The Republic by Plato sounds really interesting. Have you done/could you make a video on how to read difficult books, my examples are: Les Miserable, The Count of Monte Christo and Bleak House. I have tried the 10 pages approach with Les, Mis., reading Notre Dame first to get a feel for Victor Hugo's writing style and Audible with The Count of Monte Christo. I do enjoy your Videos, so in-depth but accessible too. I am watching these before i start my English Literature Degree with the OU with 2 Humanities Modules before i start on my Literature Pathway at Level 2

[@genemcn3579]

Honestly, one could read all of Shakespeare and only Shakespeare and understand almost everything about humanity.

[@moshecallen]

Euclid established the axiomatic approach to mathematics which we still use today. Euclid has not really been criticized. We just don't always use his 5th postulate. His contribution is to establish how to think about math, and math is used everywhere.

[@josephharley9448]

What about Flan o Brien THE THIRD POLICEMAN ?

[@bili8617]

Great video - informative and interesting.

[@susprime7018]

Good video, thank you.

[@reaganwiles_art]

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[@lauterunvollkommenheit4344]

Euclid's main contribution to mathematics is not geometry itself but the axiomatic method. In such a system every theorem can be derived from a finite set of axioms. This is what makes mathematics unique, even today.

[@racheldemain1940]

You have lost me! 🤣

[@lauterunvollkommenheit4344]

@@racheldemain1940 If you're interested in the axiomatic method, you can find many articles and books on the topic, or you can check any introductory text to higher mathematics.

[@callum7081]

The communist manifesto shaped the world into a living hell where it was implemented lol, still it is one of the most influential books of all time even if the influence was negative.