The Choice of Hercules

Grayling, Prof A.C.

ISBN 10: 029784833X / ISBN 13: 9780297848332

Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007

Beschreibung

1st printing. An unread book.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 037788

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Choice of Hercules
• Verlag: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 029784833X
• ISBN-13: 9780297848332
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition.
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Philosophy and Religion

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Inhaltsangabe

Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher AC Grayling uses as the starting point of his masterful new book. He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges. Above all, he explores the idea that certain demands and certain pleasures are necessary, not just because of their intrinsic merits but because of what they do for each other. The Good Life or the good life? With exceptional clarity and unrivalled prose, Grayling addresses the everyday ethical choices which confront us all.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy and Master of the New College of the Humanities, London. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has written and edited many books, both scholarly and for a general readership, and has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a former Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, a Vice President of the British Humanist Association, an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society, Patron of the UK Armed Forces Humanist association, Patron of Dignity in Dying, a former Booker Prize Judge, a Fellow of the Royal Literary Society, a member of the human rights group IHEU represented at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva; and much more.