What is the most important non-religious book ever written?

>implying Marxism isn't a religion

Possibly the Iliad - it was studied and emulated by the Greeks, Romans, and even the Byzantines.

Also, how about the I-Ching, which is quite possibly the basis for various strands of eastern philosophy.

> science
> is religion

>The Iliad and the I Ching
>Not religious

It's still used for education

>Myth
>The same as religion

No.

Fucking this. The book for everything.

Postmodernism in the 1500s

Very edgy

The first novel I know of with self-referential jokes, metafiction, and fan fiction built into the plot.

>Also sprach Zarathustra will be the bible of the future superman.
Ayone with any bible cannot be the Superman.

>One uses gods
>The other is used in religious rituals

Finnegans Wake is about gods but I wouldn't call that religious either.

The Encyclopedia

my diary

>Also sprach Zarathustra will be the bible of the future superman.
lol

Euclid's Elements is the most taught book in history after the bible.

Euclid's Elements was the standard geometry textbook until very recently and I hold that its abandonment is a cause (not a symptom, a cause) of the decline in educational standards.

An inquiry into the wealth of nations by that irish guy.

>not a symptom, a cause

whats the difference?

damn that picture is trippy

Has anyone said The Origin Of Species? More influential in the modern era than any other text with regards to both scientific and religious thought.

Old uncle Ragnar never told a lie.

>The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

The book changed the way we think about the world. It demonstrated that the diversity of the natural world could be explained without recourse to supernatural agency and proposed instead that it had been shaped by chance collisions and incremental changes through billions of years. It also showed us that the Earth is not preprogrammed to progress. Species that outgrow themselves risk extinction, not because they are being punished for their hubris but because they are making themselves unfit, destroying the means of their own survival.

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>The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

Freud was right to feel that he had written something momentous (he even imagined a plaque to commemorate where the “secret of dreams” had been discovered).

Freud shows the central place of sexuality and violence in our mental lives. His "dream book" showed so carefully how exactly these currents are forged and encrypted, how they undergo distortion and censorship and how they are formed and shaped by language.

Nice.

Euclid's Elements

what?

Nigga, literally everything there is presented witha geometric perspective, it's completely useless to teach it like that with what we know about algebra and analysis.

Marx - Capital, considering half the world was communist

>The Iliad
>non-religious

topkek

I have this book

You have read it, right? Gods in a work does not automatically mean said work is a religious work, it simply has religious over-tones as did every day life in ancient Greece.

Try again.

>half the world was communist
looks like somebody didnt read the most important non-religious book

How to make gunpowder by Ching Chong Chinaman

The God Delusion is the most important book of all time

>>Gilgamesh
Literally a male mary sue

creating butthurt =/= importance

You know what an epic is?

How is the Iliad a book but Gilgamesh isn't? The Iliad was passed through oral tradition

Art of War

What is Enlightenment

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
Das Kapital

I thought the story of the Trojan War was passed through oral tradition but the Iliad specifically was a written book.

The God delusion

The Iliad was a written book and had been since Homer. There is debate over whether Homer was an inheritor of an oral tradtion; an illiterate poet dictating to an author, or an author who penned the thing whole cloth.

The Elements is more important as a tool for teaching logic and thought than for teaching geometry, and should be taught in primary school.

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Sun Tzu's Art of War And Clausewitz's On War?

>marxism
>scientific

>Capital
>non-religious

topkek

Atlas Shrugged

There are better entry level books nowdays and considering the language and progression of the book, there are better methods. Though I agree proof learning should be thought since primary.

Everybody Poops

Well no, because he ultimately fails in his quest

Yup, it's incredible how ahead of his time Cervantes was

what did he mean by this?

where's waldo

Capital and The Wealth of Nations

SPOILERS bro

The Elements by Euclid. So many people learned math via this book, it was used from antiquity to the 20th century.

This and Brothers Karamazov.

THIS, not trying to sound like a sperglord but I don't think there is a book as influential or as lasting (in print) as Euclids.

1. Elements (Euclid)
2. Principia Mathematica (Newton)
3. The Analytic Theory of Heat (Fourier)

The Kybalion

how is it?

The collected works by Aristotle on natural philosophy. Aristotle was much more influential in the progression towards knowledge than individual scientists.

It's a funny book for any age. Greek plays are "postmodern" if by "postmodern" you mean "epic memes I pretend are original to postmodernism"

T. Zhang

A bit dated, but still wicked good.

Plato's Republic. It's the very basis of modern philosophy.

Blood Meridian but that has so many biblical overtones it's debatable.

Heart of Darkness

On the Origin of Species.