What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live

Grayling, Prof A.C.

ISBN 10: 0297841327 / ISBN 13: 9780297841326

Verlag: Orion, 2003

Beschreibung

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers CHL9561138

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: What is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live
• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0297841327
• ISBN-13: 9780297841326
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Used; Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In his major new book A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different conceptions of what a good life should be: one is a broadly secular view rooted in attitudes about human nature and the human condition; the other is a broadly transcendental view which locates the source of moral value outside the human realm. In the modern world - the world shaped by the rise of science in the seventeenth century - these two views have come increasingly into conflict, and the constantly accumulating tension between them is one of the greatest problems faced by the twenty-first century. Using his renowned clarity of thought and philosophical rigour, AC Grayling has produced an invaluable guide through mankind's ethical struggle to live decently.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A.C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of numerous books, and is also a distinguished literary journalist and broadcaster. He has been a columnist for the Guardian and The Times, is a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine, and Editor of Online Review London. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. His website can be visited at www.acgrayling.com.