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PHILOSOPHY AND LIFE - A C GRAYLING KARTONIERT (TB)

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker 'An enthusiastic thinker
who embraces humour  common sense and lucidity' Independent _______________ From the eminent
philosopher  an authoritative exploration of the great questions of how to live 'There is a
question everyone has to ask and answer - in fact  has to keep on asking and keep on answering.
It is  'How should I live my life?' meaning  'What values shall I live by? 'What sort of person
should I be? What shall I aim for?' The great majority of people do not ask this question  they
merely answer it unthinkingly  by adopting conventional views of life and what matters in
it...' From Stoics to existentialists  in philosophy and literature  discussion of the
philosophy of life -- of love and death  of courage  fortitude and wisdom -- challenges us all
to think about what kinds of life are truly worth living. In this summation of a lifetime
thinking and writing about this great question  A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth
the ideas that each of us must use in answering it for ourselves. Drawing on the lives 
experiences and works of a fantastically eclectic range of thinkers -- taking in not only
philosophers such as Confucius  Seneca and Nietzsche  but also authors from Shakespeare to
Ursula LeGuin  and modern thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum and Bernard Williams - Philosophy
and Life brings together wisdom from across eras and continents in a tour de force on the
philosophy of being human in a complicated world.

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