16 Best philosophy books like Why It's OK to Eat Meat by Dan C Shahar

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Why It's OK to Eat Meat

By: Dan C Shahar

3.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so, the vast majority of pe…

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1. Annabel Lee

By: Edgar Allan Poe , Gilles Tibo

4.32

Format: 24 pages,

"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of P… read more

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"I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but i feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we— Of many far wiser than we— And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever disseve…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

"But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever m…"

-Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee

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2. Nausea

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

3.94

Format: 178 pages, Hardcover

Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In… read more

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"It was true, I had always realized it—I hadn’t any “right"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"Then time started flowing again and the emptiness grew larger."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"I see the insipid flesh blossoming and palpitating with abandon."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

"My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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3. Sophie’s World

By: Jostein Gaarder , Paulette Møller

3.96

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen c… read more

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"الذي يعرف الخير يفعل الخير"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"الأكثر ذكاء هو الذي يعرف أنه لا يعرف"

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"Wisest is she who knows she does not know."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

"It's not a silly question if you can't answer it."

-Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World

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4. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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5. The Trouble with Being Born

By: Richard Howard , Emil M. Cioran

4.53

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

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6. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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7. Against Democracy

By: Jason Brennan

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Most people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the r… read more

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8. The God Delusion

By: Richard Dawkins

3.90

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more

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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."

-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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9. Holy Bible: New International Version

By: Anonymous

4.62

Format: 1213 pages, Hardcover

The New International Version is the world's most popular Bible in modern English and is renowned f… read more

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"Meaningless! Meaningless!"

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"Thou shalt not stand idly by"

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"A unjust law, is no law at all."

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

"Love never fails. —I Corinthians 13:8a "

-Anonymous, Holy Bible: New International Version

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10. Jesus: A Very Short Introduction

By: Richard Bauckham

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, eval… read more

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11. The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions

By: David Benatar

0.00

Format: None pages,

Are our lives meaningful, or meaningless? Is our inevitable death a bad thing? Would immortality be… read more

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12. On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

3.97

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780140432077 Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty p… read more

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"خير لى أن أكون سقراطا ساخرا , من أن أبقى خنزيرا راضيا"

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

"Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement."

-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

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13. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

14. The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies

By: Bryan Caplan

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Hardcover

The greatest obstacle to sound economic policy is not entrenched special interests or rampant lobby… read more

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15. The Way of Zen

By: Alan W. Watts

4.17

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more

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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

16. The Abolition of Man

By: C.S. Lewis

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Alternative cover for ISBN: 978-0060652944 The Abolition of Man, Lewis uses his graceful prose, del… read more

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17. Animal Liberation

By: Peter Singer

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

The Book That Started A Revolution Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work… read more

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18. Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

By: Robin Hobb

4.27

Format: 675 pages, Kindle Edition

Fitz has survived his first hazardous mission as king’s assassin, but is left little more than a cr… read more

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"We are pack!"

-Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

"Wolves have no kings"

-Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

"Surprise!-FitzChivalry"

-Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

"The fight isn't over until you win."

-Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)

19. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence

By: David Benatar

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Better Never to Have Beenargues for a number of related, highly provocative, views: (1) Coming into… read more

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20. The Consolations of Philosophy

By: Alain de Botton

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Alain de Botton's The Consolations of Philosophytakes the discipline of logic and the mind back to … read more

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21. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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22. How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

By: Michael Schur

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-… read more

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"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. —MAYA ANGELOU"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Part of the wonder of being human is that we get to learn about the extraordinary levels of virtue of which other humans are capable."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"Our behaviors create deep grooves in our personalities, like a heavy chair forming impressions in a shaggy rug, and it becomes harder and harder to escape them."

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

"... There is no way to achieve a higher-level enjoyment from running, because there's no way to achieve any enjoyment from running, because there is nothing enjoyable about running. Running is awful,…"

-Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

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23. 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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24. The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity

By: Douglas Murray

4.21

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technol… read more

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25. What We Owe the Future

By: William MacAskill

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

An Oxford philosopher makes the case for "longtermism"—that positively influencing the long-term fu… read more

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Cover of This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You) by Ed Winters

26. This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

By: Ed Winters

4.64

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Every time we eat, we have the power to radically transform the world we live in. Our choices ca… read more

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"Why do dairy farmers deserve public support but oat farmers who produce oat milk don't?"

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"We have destroyed millions of years of evolution in the blink of an eye, quite literally bulldozing our way around this finite planet."

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"It is ironic that we believe that empathy and complex emotions only really exist in humans but we then fail to empathize with the animals who suffer at our hands."

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

"Furthermore, it seems back to front to worry about the extinction of animals who have been selectively bred and don't exist naturally to begin with when our current system of animal agriculture is th…"

-Ed Winters, This is Vegan Propaganda (and Other Lies the Meat Industry Tells You)

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27. How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

By: Ed Winters

4.65

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

How to Argue With a Meat Eater (and Win Every Time) is an essential companions for all vegans helpi… read more

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"Exploring the arguments against something can often increase our conviction that we are right."

-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

"The truth is, animal products are tasty. However taste does not provide a moral justification for what we do to animals, so vegans go vegan because they recognise that life is more important than tas…"

-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

"Making positive choices in our lives is not about believing ourselves to be the sole person who can change something in its entirety, but instead recognising that we have a responsibility to play our…"

-Ed Winters, How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time)

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28. Why It's Ok to Ignore Politics

By: Christopher Freiman

3.68

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you feel like you're the only person at your office without an I Voted! sticker on Election Day?… read more

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Cover of The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan

29. The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

By: Bryan Caplan

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Despite being immensely popular--and immensely lucrative—education is grossly overrated. In this ex… read more

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"Once everyone can enrich their souls for free, government subsidies for enrichment forfeit their rationale. To object, 'But most people don't use the Internet for spiritual enrichment' is actually a …"

-Bryan Caplan, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money

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30. Why It's OK to Eat Meat

By: Dan C Shahar

3.16

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

Vegetarians have argued at great length that meat-eating is wrong. Even so, the vast majority of pe… read more

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31. War

By: Bob Woodward

4.43

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the revelatory, behind-the-scenes story of three … read more

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"President Trump had secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use as the virus spread rapidly through Russia."

-Bob Woodward, War

"Overall, Hamas killed more than 1,200 Israelis and dragged more than 240 hostages and back across the border into underground tunnels in Gaza. It was the deadliest attack in Jewish history since the …"

-Bob Woodward, War

"The second high-profile Trump critis was retired General Stanley McChrystal, who had commanded U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan a decade earlier. McChrystal had recently appeared on CNN and called…"

-Bob Woodward, War

"In the 2020 election, Trump received 74 million votes, more than any presidential candidate in history with the exception of Joe Biden, who won 81 million votes. Biden secured the Electoral College w…"

-Bob Woodward, War

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Jean-Paul Sartre , Lloyd Alexander , Hayden Carruth

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