Book description
'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 only through reflecting upon the world around us,
reading, thinking, questioning, enjoying, that we can inculcate
understanding, tolerance and importantly the courage to live our lives.
It is our responsibility to live such 'considered lives' and to realise
that we are authors of a narrative that can be shaped and controlled.
This is the fifth in a series of essay miscellanies from our foremost
philosopher A. C. Grayling, reflecting upon the form of our world and
its multiplicity. The essays are grouped by theme into reflections upon
life and the standards we live by, including vivid polemics and
perceptive pieces on significant thinkers, contemporary rights and
liberties issues. This book brilliantly articulates the philosophical
debate and reflection that is needed to prepare us for life in the
twenty-first century.
