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Ethics Books
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The Nicomachean Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.00 — 60,853 ratings — published -350
After Virtue (Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,446 ratings — published 1982
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,810 ratings — published 1785
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 175 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.30 — 27,813 ratings — published 2007
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.13 — 808,292 ratings — published 2010
Beyond Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.03 — 115,060 ratings — published 1886
Practical Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,543 ratings — published 1979
Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,444 ratings — published 1677
Utilitarianism (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.68 — 25,191 ratings — published 1861
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
by (shelved 145 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.90 — 24,374 ratings — published 2010
On the Genealogy of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 139 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,078 ratings — published 1887
Meditations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 137 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.28 — 353,908 ratings — published 180
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.19 — 66,510 ratings — published 2012
Animal Liberation (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.31 — 11,354 ratings — published 1975
Ethics in the Real World: 86 Brief Essays on Things that Matter (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,990 ratings — published 2016
A Theory of Justice (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,624 ratings — published 1971
The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty (Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,910 ratings — published 2009
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.97 — 227,096 ratings — published -400
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,905 ratings — published 1984
Eating Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.21 — 80,805 ratings — published 2009
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.03 — 809 ratings — published 1985
The Ethics of Ambiguity (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,143 ratings — published 1947
Lying (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 75 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.88 — 22,523 ratings — published 2011
What We Owe to Each Other (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.86 — 676 ratings — published 1999
Principia Ethica (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,008 ratings — published 1903
Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.94 — 680 ratings — published 1977
The Elements of Moral Philosophy (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,497 ratings — published 2003
An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,321 ratings — published 1751
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.93 — 14,055 ratings — published 2012
Ethics (Works, # 6)
by (shelved 60 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,002 ratings — published 1955
The Moral Vision of the New Testament: A Contemporary Introduction to New Testament Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,615 ratings — published 1996
Ethics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.42 — 1,135 ratings — published 2009
The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,016 ratings — published 2006
The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,839 ratings — published 2015
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (Issues of Our Time)
by (shelved 55 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,229 ratings — published 2006
A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.84 — 669 ratings — published 1966
Letters from a Stoic (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.32 — 57,227 ratings — published 64
The Prince (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.84 — 385,057 ratings — published 1532
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.13 — 35,113 ratings — published 2022
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.49 — 219,184 ratings — published 2014
Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,273 ratings — published 2001
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,278,514 ratings — published 2004
On Liberty (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,421 ratings — published 1859
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.24 — 37,030 ratings — published 125
Natural Goodness (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.93 — 436 ratings — published 2001
The Sources of Normativity (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.15 — 446 ratings — published 1996
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,695 ratings — published 1759
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,011 ratings — published 1994
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as ethics)
avg rating 4.07 — 177,704 ratings — published 1883
Critique of Practical Reason (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as ethics)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,893 ratings — published 1788
“The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.”
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“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?”
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