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A History of Philosophy HB by A. C. Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
The first truly authoritative and accessible history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions 'If there is any such person in Britain as The Thinking Man, it is A. C. Grayling' - The Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of so ...Show more
Against All Gods- Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness by A C Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oberon Masters
Do religions have an inherent right to be respected? Is atheism itself a form of religion, and can there be such a thing as a 'fundamentalist atheist'? Are we witnessing a global revival in religious zeal, or do the signs point instead to religion's ultimate decline? In a series of bold, unsparing polem ...Show more
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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
Among The Dead Cities : Was the Allied bombing of civilians in World War II a necessity of a crime? by A C Grayling
Category: History
In the course of WWII, the air forces of Britain and the United States of America carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan, ending with the destruction of Hamburg and Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was it justified by the necessities of war? Or was it, in ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities : Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A.C. Grayling
Category: History
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Was the bombing of civilian targets justified by the necessities of war? Or was ...Show more
Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified? by A. C. Grayling
Category: History | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations Ser.
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. At this policy's most terrible extreme came the dropping of ...Show more
Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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
Democracy and Its Crisis by A C Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Democracy and its Crisis by A C Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK and the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history - Peric ...Show more
Descartes - The life of Rene Descartes andits place in his times by A.C. Grayling
Category: Biography Memoir
Scientist, mathematician, traveller, soldier - and spy - Rene Descartes has been called the 'father of modern philosophy'. Born in 1596 into an era still dominated by the medieval mindset, he was one of the chief actors in the riveting drama that ushered in the modern world. His life coincided with an e ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is a Universal Ethics Possible? by A. C. Grayling
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to avoid disaster. 'A must read' Gordon Brown 'A truly excellent book' Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling's view, are climate change, t ...Show more