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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 43,374 ratings — published 2004
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 112,422 ratings — published 2007
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 80,033 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 282,556 ratings — published 2006
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 42,417 ratings — published 2006
The Enigma of Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,203 ratings — published 2017
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 37,926 ratings — published 2012
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 32,248 ratings — published 2018
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 50,922 ratings — published 2014
Lying (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 22,366 ratings — published 2011
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 24,289 ratings — published 2010
The Age of American Unreason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,267 ratings — published 2008
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 42,156 ratings — published 1781
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 65,579 ratings — published 2012
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,081 ratings — published 1992
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 583,780 ratings — published 2011
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 4,679 ratings — published 2003
Rationality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 6,408 ratings — published 2021
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 99,575 ratings — published 2017
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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avg rating 4.04 — 29,036 ratings — published 2007
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
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avg rating 3.83 — 56,326 ratings — published 2003
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 244,670 ratings — published 1974
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 9,941 ratings — published 1994
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,172 ratings — published 1991
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 12,931 ratings — published 2006
A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)
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avg rating 3.60 — 7,312 ratings — published 1958
The Assault on Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 7,371 ratings — published
The Edge of Reason (ebook)
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avg rating 3.42 — 909 ratings — published 2023
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,128 ratings — published 2004
Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 3,802 ratings — published 2020
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.23 — 55,758 ratings — published 2018
Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 461 ratings — published 2002
The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking (Thinker's Guide Library)
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avg rating 3.92 — 212 ratings — published 2003
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,016 ratings — published 2010
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.94 — 6,537 ratings — published 2018
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.58 — 6,465 ratings — published 2016
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 63,812 ratings — published 2016
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,213 ratings — published 1986
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 455,347 ratings — published 1952
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
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avg rating 4.11 — 74,448 ratings — published 2000
Confessor (Sword of Truth, #11)
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avg rating 4.09 — 51,734 ratings — published 2007
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,812 ratings — published 2003
The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Oxford Library of Psychology)
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avg rating 3.88 — 16 ratings — published 2012
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 71,108 ratings — published 2001
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,046 ratings — published 2013
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 868,087 ratings — published 1946
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 41,671 ratings — published 1986
Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies - Academic Edition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 606 ratings — published 2012
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 381,111 ratings — published 1532
Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate (The Terry Lectures Series)
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avg rating 3.79 — 811 ratings — published 2009
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
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