On What Matters: Volume One
By: Derek Parfit
4.17
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parf…
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1. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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2. The Subjection of Women
By: John Stuart Mill
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
..".John Mill disagrees with the argument that women are naturally less good at some things than me… read more
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- philosophy
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3. Faust: First Part
By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm
4.21
Format: None pages, Paperback
Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more
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4. On the Shortness of Life
By: Seneca , Charles Desmond Nuttall Costa
0.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Stoic writings of the philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into the art of living, the im… read more
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5. What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
By: Roger Penrose , Erwin Schrödinger
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What Is Life? is a 1944 non-fiction science book written for the lay reader by physicist Erwin Schr… read more
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6. Political Liberalism
By: Martha C. Nussbaum , John Rawls
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in "A Th… read more
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7. The Open Society and Its Enemies
By: None
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes … read more
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8. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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9. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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10. Anarchy, State, and Utopia
By: Robert Nozick
4.37
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed book, Robert Nozick challenges the most commonly held politi… read more
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11. Why I Write
By: George Orwell
4.00
Format: 592 pages,
Whether puncturing the lies of politicians, wittily dissecting the English character or telling unp… read more
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12. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
By: Michael Chabon
3.95
Format: None pages,
Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, h… read more
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13. The Metaphysics of Morals
By: Immanuel Kant , Mary J. Gregor
3.96
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Kant's major work in applied moral philosophy deals with the basic principles of rights and of virt… read more
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14. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
By: Brian Klaas
4.13
Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition
Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more
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15. The Saint of Bright Doors
By: Vajra Chandrasekera
3.71
Format: 356 pages, Hardcover
The Saint of Bright Doors sets the high drama of divine revolutionaries and transcendent cults agai… read more
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16. A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
By: Kelly Weinersmith
4.06
Format: 448 pages, ebook
Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away—no climate change, no … read more
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"For now, if leaving Earth is humanity leaving the cradle, well, humanity is going straight to its neighbor's basement."-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
"The Moon isn't just sort of a gray Sahara without air. Its surface is made of jagged, electrically charged microscopic glass and stone, which clings to pressure suits and landing vehicles. Nor is Mar…"-Kelly Weinersmith, A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?
17. The Federalist Papers
By: Alexander Hamilton
4.10
Format: 592 pages, Kindle Edition
Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as “the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever w… read more
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"Liberty is to faction what air is to fire..."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"If we are to be one Nation in any respect, it clearly ought to be in respect to other Nations."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"An avaricious man might be tempted to betray the interests of the state for the acquisition of wealth. No. 75"-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
"No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias."-Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers
18. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
By: David Graeber
4.20
Format: 692 pages, Hardcover
A dramatically new understanding of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions abo… read more
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"Humans - from this other perspective, which is just as extreme in its own way - are at best an arbitrary constellation of cultural elements, perhaps assembled according to some prevailing spirit, cod…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"One might ask, how could that most basic element of all human freedoms, the freedom to make promises and commitments and thus build relationships, be turned into its very opposite: into peonage, serf…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"There is an obvious objection to evolutionary models which assume that our strongest social ties are based on close biological kinship: many humans just don’t like their families very much. And this …"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
"In the Middle Ages, most people in other parts of the world who actually knew anything about northern Europe at all considered it an obscure and uninviting backwater full of religious fanatics who, a…"-David Graeber, The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
19. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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- psychology
"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
20. On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
By: John Stuart Mill
3.95
Format: 547 pages, Paperback
'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed human b… read more
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"He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice. He gains no practice either in discerning or in desiring what is best. The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved onl…"-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
21. On What Matters: Volume One
By: Derek Parfit
4.17
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
On What Matters is a major work in moral philosophy. It is the long-awaited follow-up to Derek Parf… read more
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