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Books like The Moral Landscape
The best books like The Moral Landscape are Letter to a Christian Nation, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, and Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris is about ethics, science and morality, human flourishing. 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.
- Letter to a Christian Nation
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Sam Harris · Philosophy
Letter to a Christian Nation is a short, blunt book written in direct address to American Christians.
Shares ethics and secularism with The Moral Landscape.
Read the summary → - The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris · Religion & Spirituality
The End of Faith was written in the weeks following the September 11 attacks and published in 2004.
Both dig into ethics.
Read the summary → - Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Sam Harris · Religion & Spirituality
Waking Up is Sam Harris' argument that the insights of contemplative traditions — particularly Buddhism's claim that the sense of self is an illusion — can be separated from religious metaphysics and investigated directly through meditation and introspection.
A kindred philosophy read.
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- 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.
Read the summary → - Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy
Breaking the Spell is Daniel Dennett's case that religion is a natural phenomenon — one that can and should be studied using the methods of evolutionary biology, cognitive science, and anthropology.
A kindred philosophy read.
Read the summary → - Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
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Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Krista Tippett · Philosophy
Becoming Wise draws on Krista Tippett's decades of conversation with scientists, poets, theologians, activists, and philosophers through her radio program On Being.
Both dig into human flourishing.
Read the summary → - Consciousness Explained
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Daniel C. Dennett · Philosophy
Consciousness Explained is Daniel Dennett's attempt to replace what he calls the Cartesian Theater — the intuitive picture of consciousness as a single unified stream of experience observed by a self — with a model he calls Multiple Drafts.
Both dig into neuroscience.
Read the summary → - Fear and Trembling
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Søren Kierkegaard · Philosophy
Fear and Trembling was published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio, and it is Kierkegaard's most sustained meditation on the nature of faith through the lens of the story of Abraham and Isaac.
Both dig into ethics.
Read the summary → - Lying
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Sam Harris · Philosophy
Lying is a short philosophical essay — barely 80 pages — in which Sam Harris argues that lying is almost never justified and that most people dramatically underestimate its costs.
Both dig into ethics.
Read the summary → - Mere Christianity
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C. S. Lewis · Philosophy
Mere Christianity began as a series of BBC radio broadcasts Lewis gave during World War II, and the book retains that quality of direct, informal address.
Both dig into ethics.
Read the summary → - Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
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Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Nassim Nicholas Taleb · Philosophy
Skin in the Game is Taleb's argument that people who don't bear the consequences of their decisions should not be trusted, respected, or given power over others.
Both dig into ethics.
Read the summary → - A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology
A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.
Both dig into neuroscience.
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Books like The Moral Landscape: quick answers
What are the best books like The Moral Landscape?
The best books like The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris are Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Moral Landscape, such as ethics, science and morality, human flourishing.
What should I read after The Moral Landscape?
A natural next read after The Moral Landscape is Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris. Shares ethics and secularism with The Moral Landscape. Other strong choices are The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle.
What books are similar to The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris?
The Moral Landscape centers on ethics, science and morality, human flourishing. Books with a similar feel include Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris, Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living by Krista Tippett — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
