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Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as moral)
avg rating 4.03 — 120,368 ratings — published 1886
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as moral)
avg rating 4.15 — 15,983 ratings — published 1776
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as moral)
avg rating 3.84 — 400,537 ratings — published 1513
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as moral)
avg rating 3.56 — 15,282 ratings — published 1961
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as moral)
avg rating 4.19 — 69,215 ratings — published 2012
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as moral)
avg rating 4.27 — 381,625 ratings — published 180
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as moral)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,667 ratings — published 2010
After Virtue (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as moral)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,704 ratings — published 1982
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as moral)
avg rating 4.01 — 63,316 ratings — published -350
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as moral)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,604,914 ratings — published 1943
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as moral)
avg rating 3.83 — 23,547 ratings — published 1785
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as moral)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,000,813 ratings — published 1890
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as moral)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,156,538 ratings — published 1866
The 48 Laws of Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as moral)
avg rating 4.07 — 244,357 ratings — published 1999
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as moral)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,351 ratings — published 2013
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as moral)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,263,895 ratings — published 1964
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as moral)
avg rating 4.05 — 491,156 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as moral)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,313,802 ratings — published 1954
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as moral)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,902,602 ratings — published 1993
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as moral)
avg rating 4.12 — 38,170 ratings — published 1887
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as moral)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,750,614 ratings — published 1988
The Pearl (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as moral)
avg rating 3.59 — 290,646 ratings — published 1947
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as moral)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,795 ratings — published 1759
Aesop’s Fables (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as moral)
avg rating 4.05 — 131,039 ratings — published -560
The Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.30 — 287,000 ratings — published 2013
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.19 — 363,691 ratings — published 1995
A Christmas Carol (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.09 — 963,149 ratings — published 1843
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,224,967 ratings — published 2012
Black Beauty (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,729 ratings — published 1877
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 3.76 — 310,219 ratings — published 1759
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,988,118 ratings — published 1963
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,139,060 ratings — published 1925
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,542 ratings — published 2009
Mr. Peabody's Apples (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,898 ratings — published 2003
Handle with Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.01 — 141,692 ratings — published 2009
Chrysanthemum (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as moral)
avg rating 4.34 — 56,863 ratings — published 1991
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.55 — 251,473 ratings — published 2019
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,541,180 ratings — published 1868
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.13 — 36,639 ratings — published 2022
How Much Land Does a Man Need? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.11 — 21,311 ratings — published 1886
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 3.83 — 697,245 ratings — published 1886
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.37 — 937,512 ratings — published 1946
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,428,471 ratings — published 2017
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 3.77 — 475,056 ratings — published 2017
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,119,105 ratings — published 1960
Who Moved My Cheese? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 3.87 — 521,596 ratings — published 1998
Siddhartha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.09 — 915,719 ratings — published 1922
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as moral)
avg rating 4.19 — 28,130 ratings — published 2008
“The instinct to survive is human nature itself, and every aspect of our personalities derives from it. Anything that conflicts with the survival instinct acts sooner or later to eliminate the individual and thereby fails to show up in future generations. . . . A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual's instinct to survive--and nowhere else!--and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”
― Starship Troopers
We have such a theory now; we can solve any moral problem, on any level. Self-interest, love of family, duty to country, responsibility toward the human race . . . .
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.”
― Starship Troopers
“Stories can justify anything. It doesn’t matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn’t matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn’t. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller.”
― How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
― How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories
