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Paperback What is Good? Book

ISBN: 0753817551

ISBN13: 9780753817551

What is Good?

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, in today's secular society, does 'good' actually mean? To classical Greeks, the acquisition of knowledge, the enjoyment of the senses, creativity and beauty...

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Goodness as an Enlightenment Value

A. C. Grayling is a philosopher in the Anglo-American philosophical style, but recently, he has taken to writing about "life" issues with the vigor and rigor than the analytic method requires, but eliminating the Ivory Towers so that only philosophical initiates can approach the "wisdom of everyday life." This book addresses how humans were once good toward each other before the religious trinity of Judeo-Christo-Islam infected...

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