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Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
Russell by A.C. Grayling
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Very Short Introductions
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) is one of the most famous and important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this account of his life and work A.C. Grayling introduces both his technical contributions to logic and philosophy, and his wide-ranging views on education, politics, war, and sexual morality. ...Show more
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style. A book on scepticism from Anthony Grayling is to be greatly valued. Grayling is rare among academ ...Show more
The Age of Genius - The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A C Grayling
$20.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
The Challenge of Things - Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writ ...Show more
The Choice of Hercules - Pleasure, Duty and the good life in the 21st century by A C Grayling
$23.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher AC 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. Above all, he ...Show more
The Form of Things by A.C. Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
'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 to prepare for them, and create strategies with which to deal with them. It is ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What do we know, and how do we know it? What do we now know that we don't know? And what have we learnt about the obstacles to knowing more? In a time of deepening battles over what knowledge and truth mean, these questions matter more than ever. Bestselling polymath and philosopher A. C. Grayling seeks ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
$25.00 AUD
Category: Climate
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more
The God Argument - The Case Against Religion and for Humanism by A C Grayling
$30.00 AUD
Category: Religion
There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in ...Show more
The Good Book - A Secular Bible by A. C. Grayling
$50.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible. D ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$35.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more