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Books like Ethics
The best books like Ethics are Beyond Good and Evil, Meditations, and Nicomachean Ethics. Ethics by Baruch Spinoza is about god and nature, free will, emotions and reason. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Beyond Good and Evil
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Friedrich Nietzsche · Philosophy
Beyond Good and Evil is Nietzsche's assault on the philosophical tradition he had been trained in and had grown to distrust.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Meditations
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Marcus Aurelius · Philosophy
Meditations is not a book Marcus Aurelius wrote for anyone to read.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Nicomachean Ethics
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Aristotle · Philosophy
The Nicomachean Ethics is Aristotle's systematic inquiry into what makes a human life go well.
A kindred philosophy read.
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- The Republic
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Plato · Philosophy
The Republic is Plato's most ambitious work, a sustained inquiry into the nature of justice staged as a dialogue among Socrates and his companions in Athens.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Critique of Pure Reason
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Immanuel Kant · Philosophy
The Critique of Pure Reason is Kant's attempt to resolve a crisis in 18th-century philosophy by asking what human reason can and cannot know.
Both dig into metaphysics.
Read the summary → - Sophie's World
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Jostein Gaarder · Philosophy
Sophie's World is Jostein Gaarder's novel about a fourteen-year-old Norwegian girl who begins receiving anonymous philosophy lessons — first as mysterious letters, then from a philosopher named Alberto Knox — that take her through the entire history of Western philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the present day.
Both dig into metaphysics.
Read the summary → - Blindsight
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Peter Watts · Science fiction
Blindsight follows a crew of post-human specialists sent to intercept an alien object at the edge of the solar system in 2082.
Both dig into free will.
Read the summary → - Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Homo Deus picks up where Sapiens left off, but turns to face the other direction.
Both dig into free will.
Read the summary → - Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
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Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
David Eagleman · Psychology
David Eagleman is a neuroscientist at Stanford who argues that the conscious self is a late, small, and largely uninformed participant in the brain's activity.
Both dig into free will.
Read the summary → - Permutation City
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Greg Egan · Science fiction
Permutation City opens in the mid-21st century, when wealthy individuals can run copies of themselves as digital simulations — Copies — in real time or at slower clock speeds depending on the computing budget they can afford.
Both dig into free will.
Read the summary → - 1984
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George Orwell · Philosophy
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's 1949 novel about a future England called Airstrip One, governed by the totalitarian Party under the figurehead Big Brother.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari · Philosophy
Where Sapiens traced humanity's past and Homo Deus speculated about its future, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century plants itself in the present.
A kindred philosophy read.
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Books like Ethics: quick answers
What are the best books like Ethics?
The best books like Ethics by Baruch Spinoza are Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, The Republic by Plato, Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Ethics, such as god and nature, free will, emotions and reason.
What should I read after Ethics?
A natural next read after Ethics is Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche. A kindred philosophy read. Other strong choices are Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, The Republic by Plato.
What books are similar to Ethics by Baruch Spinoza?
Ethics centers on god and nature, free will, emotions and reason. Books with a similar feel include Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, The Republic by Plato, Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
