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What Is Good? : The Search For The Best Way To Live
Hardback Edition: 1/2003
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.
Pages : 256
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicholson
Publication date : 2003-01-01
Subjects: Non-fiction, Medicine, Health And Personal Development