6 Best philosophy books like Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person by David Boonin

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Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person

By: David Boonin

4.28

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one is the fetus a person? In this provocative and…

If you liked the philosophy plot in Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person by David Boonin , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Canterville Ghost

By: Oscar Wilde , Inga Moore

3.88

Format: 126 pages, Hardcover

This is Oscar Wilde's tale of the American family moved into a British mansion, Canterville Chase, … read more

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"Love is stronger than death is"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

"To his alert mind and ears, every experience was education."

-Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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2. Ethical Intuitionism

By: Michael Huemer

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

This book defends a form of ethical intuitionism, according to which (i) there are objective moral … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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3. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.08

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Drawing on cutting-edge neuroscience and psychology and displaying all of the brilliance that made … read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. The Lottery

By: Shirley Jackson

4.05

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

In a small American town, the local residents are abuzz with excitement and nervousness when they w… read more

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"It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"It isn't fair, it isn't right," Mrs. Hutchinson screamed, and then they were upon her."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

"The morning of June 27th was clear and sunny, with the fresh warmth of a full-summer day; the flowers were blossoming profusely and the grass was richly green."

-Shirley Jackson, The Lottery

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5. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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6. Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

By: Martha C. Nussbaum

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

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7. The Problem of Political Authority: An Examination of the Right to Coerce and the Duty to Obey

By: Michael Huemer

3.33

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

Modern states commonly deploy coercion in a wide array of circumstances in which the resort to forc… read more

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8. Elizabeth Costello

By: J.M. Coetzee

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, a… read more

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9. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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  • philosophy
"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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10. To Paradise

By: Hanya Yanagihara

3.75

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and … read more

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"Does this look like a dystopia to you?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"It was very cold that afternoon, whipping wind, and the city seemed to mirror my mood, which was gray and bleak."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

"Only people who have a plausible hope of being immortalized in history are so obsessed about how they might get immortalized," she said. "The rest of us are too busy trying to get through the day."

-Hanya Yanagihara, To Paradise

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11. Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality

By: David Edmonds

4.26

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker , an entertaining and illuminating biography … read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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12. Animal Liberation Now: The Definitive Classic Renewed

By: Peter Singer

4.55

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"Peter Singer may be the most controversial philosopher alive; he is certainly among the most influ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. A Very Nice Girl

By: Imogen Crimp

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more

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14. A Very Large Expanse of Sea

By: Tahereh Mafi

4.08

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful,… read more

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"Ocean, azizam,"

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

"How can you say that?"

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

"I could no longer distinguish people from monsters"

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

"My parents loved us but I wasn't always sure they liked us."

-Tahereh Mafi, A Very Large Expanse of Sea

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15. Being Good in a World of Need

By: Larry S. Temkin

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In a world filled with both enormous wealth and pockets of great devastation, how should the well-o… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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16. Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person

By: David Boonin

4.28

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Most arguments for or against abortion focus on one is the fetus a person? In this provocative and… read more

Similar categories in David Boonin's Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person book and David Boonin's Beyond Roe: Why Abortion Should be Legal--Even if the Fetus is a Person

  • feminism
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • womens
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17. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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Michael Huemer

4.29

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Malcolm Gladwell

4.08

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David Edmonds

4.26

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Peter Singer

4.55

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Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser , None , C. Patrick O'Donnell , Thomas P. Roche Jr.

3.77

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

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3.91

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