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

Anthony Grayling

ISBN 10: 0297841327 / ISBN 13: 9780297841326

Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Codice articolo G0297841327I4N10

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: Anthony Grayling teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and is a Fellow of St Anne's, Oxford. He reviews regularly in the Financial Times. He has a regular column in Prospect and the Guardian on Saturday.

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Titolo: What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way ...
Casa editrice: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
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