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Normative Ethics Books
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Utilitarianism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 25,761 ratings — published 1861
The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 63,591 ratings — published -350
What We Owe to Each Other (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 723 ratings — published 1999
Normative Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 119 ratings — published
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 23,649 ratings — published 1785
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,990 ratings — published 1984
Intelligent Virtue (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 159 ratings — published 2011
Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Volume 0)
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avg rating 4.39 — 100 ratings — published 1996
Utilitarianism: For and Against (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 319 ratings — published 1973
After Virtue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,738 ratings — published 1982
Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,756 ratings — published 1844
Rights of Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 10,539 ratings — published 1791
On Liberty (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 45,035 ratings — published 1859
On What Matters: Volume One (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 254 ratings — published 2011
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 832 ratings — published 1985
Moral Theory: An Introduction (Elements of Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.79 — 153 ratings — published 2002
The Elements of Moral Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,552 ratings — published 2003
A Theory of Justice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 13,855 ratings — published 1971
Principia Ethica (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 1,032 ratings — published 1903
CÓMO CONQUISTAR La SU PRIMERA: $ 1, 000,000.00 (Spanish Edition)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.44 — 25 ratings — published
The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 3,122 ratings — published 1844
Wages, Price and Profit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 2,275 ratings — published 1898
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 9,809 ratings — published 1880
The Subjection of Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,873 ratings — published 1869
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 33,624 ratings — published 1843
Eleven Theses on Feuerbach (Audiobook)
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avg rating 4.06 — 981 ratings — published 1888
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published
The World as Will and Representation, Volume I (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 11,501 ratings — published 1818
Elements of the Philosophy of Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 3,956 ratings — published 1821
Philosophy of Mind (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.92 — 438 ratings — published 1817
Phenomenology of Spirit (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 21,251 ratings — published 1807
The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 413 ratings — published 1841
The Way Towards the Blessed Life; Or, the Doctrine of Religion (Bibliolife Reproduction)
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avg rating 3.60 — 10 ratings — published 2009
A lasting peace through the federation of Europe; and, The state of war (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published 2009
The Age of Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 9,592 ratings — published 1794
رسالة في التسامح (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 2,897 ratings — published 1763
Offences Against Oneself and An Open Letter (Audiobook)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Principles of Morals and Legislation (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 666 ratings — published 1789
The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness 1680-1790 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 872 ratings — published 2020
The Right and the Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 93 ratings — published 1930
The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Ethics (British Moral Philosophers)
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avg rating 3.64 — 67 ratings — published 1912
HURSTHOUSE:ON VIRTUE ETHICS PAPER (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 178 ratings — published 1999
Consequentialism: New Directions, New Problems (Oxford Moral Theory)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Grundbok i normativ etik (pocket)
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avg rating 3.05 — 39 ratings — published 2005
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 44 ratings — published 1997
Ethics Through History: An Introduction (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
The Development of Ethics, Volume 2: From Suarez to Rousseau (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 8 ratings — published 2008
The Development of Ethics, Volume 1: From Socrates to the Reformation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10 ratings — published 2007
“No science and no analysis of the future consequences of various actions taken today can in itself tell us what to do. We need, in addition, to factor in what kind of future we value, and to what extent we care at all about the future compared to more immediate concerns here and now. The later aspect is usually modeled and economics by the so-called discount rate, which has played a prominent role in discussions of climate change on a decadal and centennial time scale, but hardly at all in the context of longer perspectives or the various radical technologies[.] We are less used to thinking about ethical issues on long time scales, so our intuitions trying to fail us and lead to paradoxes. These issues need to be resolved, because dodging the bullet would in my opinion be unacceptably irresponsible.”
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
― Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity
“[...] For instance, a gay man who played with dolls in his childhood, dresses pink and engages in anal sex with another man triggers a gender prejudice, by proxy rather than based on a characteristic of their own, like racism and classism do: dolls and pink are traditionally associated with the feminine sphere, anal sexuality has a higher stigma than vaginal, mainly because a more visible power level play comes into effect (with a dominant and a submissive role). Consequently, when a man crosses his "designated" gender role boundary of masculinity, strength, dominance into femininity, weakness, submission, then he is no longer valued as a human being, for the man has become [or is] a woman. Therefore, homophobia and transphobia are actually by-products of misogyny, which is is turn gynophobic whitewashing, deeply rooted in the dominant ideology of patriarchy and historical sexism. [...]”
― Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide
― Philosophy Trips: A Naive's Guide