A C Grayling: 25 books
by A. C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers
The story of philosophy is the story of who we are and why. An epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents, it explores...
The Choice Of Hercules
Pleasure, Duty And The Good Life In The 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C. Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book.
He shows us how much more people can understand about themselves and their world by reflecting on today's moral challenges....
What is Good?
The Search for the Best Way to Live
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
A.C. Grayling answers the most important question - How do we live a good life?
One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by and which codes we will use to guide our behaviour. Most of us want to live a good life. But what,...
The Heart of Things
Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. Grayling
Everyone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of people one, in turn, respects. And one...
by A.C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher.
'Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in our world; at the same time it recognises...
The Form of Things
Essays on Life, Ideas and Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2010
The bestseller from our pre-eminent philosopher, A.C. Grayling
'Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failure - those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives'.
Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us...
The Challenge of Things
Thinking Through Troubled Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion.
The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections such as The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, collecting Grayling's recent...
Ideas That Matter
The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In Ideas that Matter, renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will...
Liberty in the Age of Terror
A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2010
"The means of defence against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." James Madison
Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing...
Towards the Light
The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for the vote to the struggle for the right to freedom of conscience. As Grayling passionately affirms, it...
by A. C. Grayling
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Prompted by events in recent years in the UK and the USA, in Latin America, Russia and the Middle East, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to sustain themselves against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters. In each of five short...
The Age of Genius
The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The Age of Genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in Europe. It was a time of creativity unparalleled in history before or since, from science to the arts, from philosophy to politics....
Among the Dead Cities
Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping...
War
An Enquiry
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inconceivable. Though wars are terrible and destructive,...
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