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

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Many important and difficult questions arise in the course of a human life, but few can compare with the most general question any individual can ask - how shall I live a good life? In his major new work Anthony Grayling examines the chief answers to this question, as proposed from classical antiquity to the present. He 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. Anthony Grayling tackles this contemporary dilemma, placing it in its historical context and ultimately asserting a humanist ethics against the revival of transcendentalist views. What is Good? is a work of rare insight and clarity.

About the Author :
Anthony Grayling teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and is a Fellow of St Anne's, Oxford. He also writes regularly for the Financial Times, Prospect and the Guardian on Saturday.

Review :
How do we live a good life? Grayling is a professional philosopher, and his latest book - subtitled 'The Search for The Best Way To Live' - is an attempt to focus upon the big question with which philosophy has been perennially preoccupied. Addressing a 'general reader' without condescension, Grayling depicts an ongoing conflict between 'secular' and 'transcendental' attempts to define the good life. Between, that is, a tradition based upon enlightened humanism and those opposing traditions which tend to manifest themselves in organised religions. Grayling is hardly a neutral observer of the debate. He is, rather, a passionate humanist, alert to the contemporary dangers of a variety of fundamentalisms. He tends, at points, to oversimplify the opposition. But this is an admirably clear and engaging book, as well as a learned one.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780297841326
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Height: 243 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Sub Title: The Search for the Best Way to Live
  • Width: 167 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0297841327
  • Publisher Date: 08 May 2003
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 591 gr


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