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Pedro Galvão

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Portugal

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Philosophy, Fantasy, Fiction

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	Ensaios Morais, Políticos e Literários by David Hume, João Paulo Monteiro (Introdução), Pedro Galvão (Goodreads Author) (Tradução) 4.08 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1758 — 136 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Problemas da Filosofia (Filosofia Aberta, #19) by James Rachels, Pedro Galvão (Goodreads Author) (Translator) 3.71 avg rating — 232 ratings — published 2004 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Os Métodos da Ética by Henry Sidgwick, Pedro Galvão (Goodreads Author) (Tradução) 3.98 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1874 — 212 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ética com Razões 3.76 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Filosofia: Uma Introdução por Disciplinas by Pedro Galvão (Goodreads Author), Ricardo Santos (Contributor), Desidério Murcho (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.36 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utilitarismo e Ensaios sobre Bentham by Pedro Galvão (Goodreads Author) (Editor, translator), John Stuart Mill 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Os Animais Têm Direitos? 3.56 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Três Diálogos sobre a Morte 3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	A Ética do Aborto - Perspectivas e Argumentos 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance.”
― Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

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“Volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives and untimely deaths. To these mournful narratives I am about to add the Life of Richard Savage...”
― Samuel Johnson

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“And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millipedes - with babies' legs on one nds and old people's legs at the other”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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