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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 43,855 ratings — published 2004
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 114,393 ratings — published 2007
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 82,613 ratings — published 1995
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 287,299 ratings — published 2006
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 42,991 ratings — published 2006
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 32,960 ratings — published 2018
The Enigma of Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,261 ratings — published 2017
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 38,910 ratings — published 2012
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,908 ratings — published 1781
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 52,411 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 610,987 ratings — published 2011
Lying (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 22,783 ratings — published 2011
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 24,617 ratings — published 2010
The Age of American Unreason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,283 ratings — published 2008
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 68,675 ratings — published 2012
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,099 ratings — published 1992
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 4,697 ratings — published 2003
Rationality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 6,656 ratings — published 2021
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,775 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 117,047 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 — 29,573 ratings — published 2007
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
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avg rating 3.84 — 56,897 ratings — published 2003
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 249,555 ratings — published 1974
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,084 ratings — published 2013
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 10,207 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 — 3,203 ratings — published 1991
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 13,010 ratings — published 2006
A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)
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avg rating 3.59 — 7,581 ratings — published 1958
The Assault on Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 7,386 ratings — published
The Edge of Reason (ebook)
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avg rating 3.58 — 1,218 ratings — published 2023
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,204 ratings — published 2004
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 124,368 ratings — published 2007
Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 9,273 ratings — published 2020
Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 3,820 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 4.22 — 58,910 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 3.95 — 465 ratings — published 2002
The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking (Thinker's Guide Library)
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avg rating 3.94 — 217 ratings — published 2003
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,059 ratings — published 2010
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,688 ratings — published 2016
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 65,135 ratings — published 2016
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,973 ratings — published 1984
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,310 ratings — published 1986
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 469,958 ratings — published 1952
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
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avg rating 4.11 — 75,156 ratings — published 2000
Confessor (Sword of Truth, #11)
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avg rating 4.09 — 52,193 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 — 3,872 ratings — published 2003
The Oxford Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (Oxford Library of Psychology)
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avg rating 3.94 — 18 ratings — published 2012
Tactics: A Game Plan for Discussing Your Christian Convictions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,244 ratings — published 2000
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 73,326 ratings — published 2001
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 926,522 ratings — published 1946
“Cassia.
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)”
― Matched
I know which life is my real one now, no matter what happens. It’s the one with you. For some reason, knowing that even one person knows my story makes things different. Maybe it’s like the poem says. Maybe this is my way of not going gentle.
I love you. (Ky Markham)”
― Matched
“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
