Books by Brights
What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live
Author: A.C. Grayling
ISBN-10:0753817551
ISBN-13:978-0753817551
To Purchase: Amazon US [Kindle] / Amazon UK
Description
One of the most fundamental questions in life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by. Since classical antiquity two strands of thought, one humanist and secular, the other premised on a ‘divine command’ and transcendentalist morality, have competed with each other, and frequently come into conflict. This book is an examination of the competitor traditions and a defence of the former.
About the Author
A. C. Grayling MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has written and edited over twenty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are "Ideas That Matter", " Liberty in the Age of Terror" and "To Set Prometheus Free". For several years he wrote the "Last Word" column for the Guardian newspaper and now writes a column for the Times of London. He is a frequent contributor to the Literary Review, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Times Literary Supplement, Index on Censorship and New Statesman, and is an equally frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. He writes the Thinking Read column for the Barnes and Noble Review in New York , is the Editor of Online Review London, and a Contributing Editor of Prospect magazine.
In addition he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and for nearly ten years was the Honorary Secretary of the principal British philosophical association, the Aristotelian Society. He is a past chairman of June Fourth, a human rights group concerned with China , and is a representative to the UN Human Rights Council for the International Humanist and Ethical Union.
Anthony Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years, and a member of its C-100 group on relations between the West and the Islamic world.
He is a Trustee of the London Library, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In 2003 he was a Booker Prize judge, and in 2010 is a judge of the Art Fund prize.
