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    The best books on Moral Character, recommended by Christian B Miller

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    The best books on Moral Character - The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle

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    The Nicomachean Ethics
    by Aristotle

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    The best books on Moral Character - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

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    Les Misérables
    by Victor Hugo

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    The best books on Moral Character - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    The best books on Moral Character - Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman

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    Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification
    by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman

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    The best books on Moral Character - The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

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    The Little Engine That Could
    by Watty Piper

  • The best books on Moral Character - The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
  • The best books on Moral Character - Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
  • The best books on Moral Character - The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • The best books on Moral Character - Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman
  • The best books on Moral Character - The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper

The best books on Moral Character, recommended by Christian B Miller

Why do apparently ‘good’ people sometimes behave deplorably? Christian B Miller, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, selects five books that explore the subject of moral character and warns us to be cautious of making inferences about the underlying motives of others – and ourselves.

The best books on Moral Character, recommended by Christian B Miller

    The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation, recommended by Paul Seabright

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    The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley

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    The Origins of Virtue
    by Matt Ridley

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    The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - A Cooperative Species by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

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    A Cooperative Species
    by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

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    The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - Hierarchy in the Forest by Christopher Boehm

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    Hierarchy in the Forest
    by Christopher Boehm

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    The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - Peacemaking Among Primates by Frans de Waal

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    Peacemaking Among Primates
    by Frans de Waal

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    The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

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    Mothers and Others
    by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

  • The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
  • The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - A Cooperative Species by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
  • The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - Hierarchy in the Forest by Christopher Boehm
  • The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - Peacemaking Among Primates by Frans de Waal
  • The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation - Mothers and Others by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation, recommended by Paul Seabright

Think of Darwinian natural selection and you may think of selfish or competitive behaviour, but this is far from the whole story, says economist Paul Seabright.

The best books on Evolution and Human Cooperation, recommended by Paul Seabright

    The best books on Cowardice, recommended by Chris Walsh

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    The best books on Cowardice - The Mystery of Courage by William Ian Miller

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    The Mystery of Courage
    by William Ian Miller

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    The best books on Cowardice - The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri

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    The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
    by Dante Alighieri

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    The best books on Cowardice - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

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    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

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    The best books on Cowardice - The Thin Red Line by James Jones

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    The Thin Red Line
    by James Jones

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    The best books on Cowardice - The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff

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    The Triumph of the Therapeutic
    by Philip Rieff

  • The best books on Cowardice - The Mystery of Courage by William Ian Miller
  • The best books on Cowardice - The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
  • The best books on Cowardice - The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  • The best books on Cowardice - The Thin Red Line by James Jones
  • The best books on Cowardice - The Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff

The best books on Cowardice, recommended by Chris Walsh

The acting director of the Writing Program at Boston University argues that cowardice can still be part of our ethical vocabulary, but that we must learn from history’s mistaken identification of the traumatised as cowards.

The best books on Cowardice, recommended by Chris Walsh

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