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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 8,004 ratings — published 2015
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,949 ratings — published 2009
Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.24 — 980 ratings — published 2013
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, and Economics)
by (shelved 7 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,865 ratings — published 2015
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,972 ratings — published 2015
What We Owe the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 6,568 ratings — published 2022
The Precipice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 5,149 ratings — published 2020
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 195,336 ratings — published 1976
Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 12,765 ratings — published 2024
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
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avg rating 3.83 — 56,734 ratings — published 2003
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,447 ratings — published 1975
80,000 Hours: Find a fulfilling career that does good (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,178 ratings — published 2016
Moral Origins: The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.65 — 292 ratings — published 2012
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.11 — 74,949 ratings — published 2000
The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,658 ratings — published 2009
Atlas Shrugged (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.69 — 409,651 ratings — published 1957
Effective Altruism Handbook (ebook)
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avg rating 4.03 — 148 ratings — published 2015
Kama Sutra: The Book of Sex Positions (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.78 — 73 ratings — published
For the Benefit of All Beings: A Commentary on the Way of the Bodhisattva (Audio CD)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.37 — 280 ratings — published 2009
How to Create a Vegan World: A Pragmatic Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,203 ratings — published 2017
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.33 — 5,173 ratings — published 2020
Famine, Affluence, and Morality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,304 ratings — published 1972
Embracing the Other: Philosophical, Psychological, and Historical Perspectives on Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1992
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.27 — 24,807 ratings — published 2011
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,022 ratings — published 2006
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.48 — 362,545 ratings — published 1971
The Possibility of Altruism (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.71 — 171 ratings — published 1970
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.20 — 89,673 ratings — published 2003
Supercooperators: The Mathematics of Evolution, Altruism and Human Behaviour {Or, Why We Need Each Other to Succeed} (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.81 — 411 ratings — published 2011
Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others (Foundational Questions in Science)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 3.73 — 217 ratings — published 2015
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 3,577 ratings — published 1979
Pathological Altruism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.14 — 91 ratings — published 2011
I Am the Messenger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as altruism)
avg rating 4.02 — 171,264 ratings — published 2002
Love Thy Stranger: How the Teachings of Jesus Transformed the Moral Conscience of the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.30 — 139 ratings — published
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 561,966 ratings — published 2025
The Spirit of Hope (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 1,223 ratings — published 2024
Theo of Golden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 320,268 ratings — published 2023
Giving Without Taking: My Why: Unlocking the Power of Selfless Generosity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 5 ratings — published
We Are Human Angels, We Inspire Change: A Complete Course for Angelic Humans (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 22 ratings — published 2016
Altruismo racional: Por qué podemos ayudar más y cómo hacerlo mejor (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.55 — 42 ratings — published
How to Live a Good Life: Choosing the Right Philosophy of Life for You (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 3.73 — 984 ratings — published 2020
Moral Sentiments And Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life (Economic Learning And Social Evolution Series)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 4.09 — 32 ratings — published 2005
Call Me Brother: The Story of a New Zealand Doctor in Bangladesh (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.65 — 26 ratings — published
The Happiness Experiment: A Revolutionary Way to Increase Happiness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.01 — 78 ratings — published
Deep Kindness: A Revolutionary Guide for the Way We Think, Talk, and Act in Kindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as altruism)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,080 ratings — published 2020
The Nightingale and the Rose (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 12,671 ratings — published 1888
What We Don't Do: Inaction in the Face of Suffering and the Drive to Do More (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.60 — 48 ratings — published
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,137 ratings — published 2024
The Three Waves of Volunteers and the New Earth (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.50 — 3,507 ratings — published 2011
“Just because I do not accept the teachings of the devotaries does not mean I've discarded a belief in right and wrong."
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― The Way of Kings
"But the Almighty determines what is right!"
"Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality -- which answers only to my heart -- is more sure and true than the morality of those who do right only because they fear retribution.”
― The Way of Kings
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power."
John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 )”
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I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it. Suppose any party, in addition to whatever share it may possess of the ability of the community, has nearly the whole of its stupidity, that party must, by the law of its constitution, be the stupidest party; and I do not see why honorable gentlemen should see that position as at all offensive to them, for it ensures their being always an extremely powerful party . . . There is so much dense, solid force in sheer stupidity, that any body of able men with that force pressing behind them may ensure victory in many a struggle, and many a victory the Conservative party has gained through that power."
John Stuart Mill ( British philosopher, economist, and liberal member of Parliament for Westminster from 1865 to 68 )”
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