7 Top philosophy books like The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer

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The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality

By: Hanno Sauer

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing a…

If you liked the philosophy plot in The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

By: Samantha Power

2.50

Format: 52 pages,

A character-driven study of some of the darkest moments in our national history, when America faile… read more

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2. Guerre

By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

3.79

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Parmi les manuscrits de Louis-Ferdinand Céline récemment retrouvés figurait une liasse de deux cent… read more

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"A tant d’années passées le souvenir des choses, bien précisément, c’est un effort. Ce que les gens ont dit c’est presque tourné des mensonges. Faut se méfier. C’est putain le passé, ça fond dans la r…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

"J’ai bien dû rester là encore une partie de la nuit suivante. Toute l’oreille à gauche était collée par terre avec du sang, la bouche aussi. Entre les deux y avait un bruit immense. J’ai dormi dans c…"

-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Guerre

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3. Morele ambitie

By: Rutger Bregman

3.71

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

De grootste verspilling van onze tijd is de verspilling van talent. Iedere carrière duurt 2.000 wer… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
"De geschiedenis doet niks. Mensen doen dingen."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"Het doel van leiderschap is om meer leiders te produceren, niet meer volgers."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"De grote advieskantoren zitten vol met toptalenten die niet weten wat ze met hun talent aan moeten, en daarom maar consultant zijn geworden."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

"Ja, we hebben activisten nodig die strijden tegen al het onrecht in het hier en nu, maar er is ook behoefte aan makers en bouwers van de toekomst."

-Rutger Bregman, Morele ambitie

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4. Kaffee und Zigaretten

By: Ferdinand von Schirach

3.95

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

'One of the most distinctive voices in European literature' (Daily Telegraph)How does the legacy of… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
"Gott ist allgütig und allmächtig. Aber wenn er das Böse erschaffen hat, kann er kein gütiger Gott sein. Und wenn er das Böse nicht erschaffen hat, aber nicht verhindern konnte, dann ist er nicht allm…"

-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

"Die Würde des Menschen ist die strahlende Idee der Aufklärung, sie kann den Hass und die Dummheit lösen, sie ist lebensfreundlich, weil sie von unserer Endlichkeit weiß, und erst durch sie werden wir…"

-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

"Aber was bedeutet das? Hat das Leben tatsächlich keinen Richter über sich? Und wenn doch? Ist es nicht möglich, dass wir uns irren? Wir wissen es nicht. Wir müssen uns also damit abfinden, dass es ge…"

-Ferdinand von Schirach, Kaffee und Zigaretten

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5. Echtzeitalter

By: Tonio Schachinger

3.96

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

Ein elitäres Wiener Internat, untergebracht in der ehemaligen Sommerresidenz der Habsburger, der Kl… read more

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6. Ik kom hier nog op terug

By: Rob van Essen

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more

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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"

-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug

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7. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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8. The City and Its Uncertain Walls

By: Haruki Murakami

3.82

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessen… read more

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"Vielleicht ist das einer der Problempunkte an der Ewigkeit. Dass man nun mal nicht weiß, wohin man sich fortan wenden soll. Aber was ist eine Liebe wert, die nicht nach Ewigkeit strebt?"

-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

"Später war er so freundlich, mir in einem Satz zu erklären, warum er im Alltag immer einen Rock trug. "Vor allem fühle ich mich, wenn ich einen Rock trage, wie die Zeilen eines schönen Gedichts."

-Haruki Murakami, The City and Its Uncertain Walls

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9. Lichtspiel

By: Daniel Kehlmann

4.28

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dre… read more

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10. Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

By: Tobias Hürter

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

The epic true story of how a global team of physics luminaries—Einstein, Curie, Schrödinger, and mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Gebied 19

By: Esther Gerritsen

3.35

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

De dag na zijn bruiloft wordt Tomas alleen wakker. Zijn vrouw is nergens te bekennen, terwijl haar … read more

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12. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

By: Peter Frankopan

3.94

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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13. Kant: Die Revolution des Denkens (German Edition)

By: Marcus Willaschek

4.28

Format: 523 pages, Kindle Edition

Immanuel Kant, der bedeutendste Philosoph der Neuzeit, wurde vor 300 Jahren geboren. Aber sein revo… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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14. The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality

By: Hanno Sauer

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

For almost five million years, humans have been locked in a relationship with morality, inventing a… read more

Similar categories in Hanno Sauer's The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality book and Hanno Sauer's The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality

  • cultural
  • history
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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15. Ken jezelf: een openhartige filosofie

By: Tinneke Beeckman

3.95

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Wat kan je troosten? Is je verlangen gevaarlijk? Waarvoor kun je dankbaar zijn? In een moedige z… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
Cover of Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ by Catherine Nixey

16. Heretic: The Many Lives and Deaths of Jesus Christ

By: Catherine Nixey

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From a celebrated classicist and author of The Darkening Age (“[a] ballista-bolt of a book”— New Yo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Radikaler Universalismus: Jenseits von Identität

By: Omri Boehm

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Die Ideologie der Identität hält das gesamte politische Spektrum besetzt – während die Linke in Kat… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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18. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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19. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. Barrowbeck

By: Andrew Michael Hurley

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

For centuries, the inhabitants of Barrowbeck, a remote valley on the Yorkshire-Lancashire border, h… read more

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21. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

8 Top history books like The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality by Hanno Sauer

Transform Your Habits

Morele ambitie

Rutger Bregman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest Generation of Physicists Uncovered the Quantum World

Tobias Hürter

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

Peter Frankopan

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Invention of Good and Evil: A World History of Morality

Hanno Sauer

3.94

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13 Top philosophy books like Kant: Die Revolution des Denkens (German Edition) by Marcus Willaschek

Transform Your Habits

Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill , George Sher

4.73

Transform Your Habits

Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

Max Horkheimer , Theodor W. Adorno , Gunzelin Schmid Nörr , Edmund Jephcott

4.22

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Walter Scheidel

None

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After Virtue

Alasdair MacIntyre

4.18

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