Book description
The most important question we can ask ourselves is: what kind of life
is the best? This is the same as asking: How does one give meaning to
one's life? How can one justify one's existence and make it worthwhile?
How does one make experience valuable, and keep growing and learning in
the process - and through this learning acquire a degree of
understanding of oneself and the world? A civilised society is one which
never ceases debating with itself aboutwhat human life should best be.
Some would, with justice, say that if wewant ours to be such a society
we must all contribute to that discussion. This book is, with
appropriate diffidence, such a contribution. It consists of a collection
of Grayling's regular 'Last Word' columns in the Guardian. This time
topics include Suicide, Deceit, Luxury, Profit, Marriage, Meat-eating,
Liberty, Slavery, Protest, Guns and War.
