Thinking of answers
Subtitle: questions in the philosophy of everyday life
By: A.C. Grayling
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Walker; Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; Walker & Company
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781408805985; 9780802719720
Subjects: Popular works; Life; Philosophy; Conduct of life
Description: As in his previous books of popular philosophy, including the best-selling "The Reason of Things and The Meaning of Things", rather than presenting a set of categorical answers to philosophical questions, Grayling offers instead suggestions for how to think about every aspect of the question, and arrive at one's own conclusions.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Happiness and the good; title: Morality and empathy; title: Friendship; title: The moral and the ethical; title: The entitlement to moralise; title: Ethics and Darwin; title: Human rights and politics; title: Poverty; title: Is beauty subjective?; title: Proving a negitive; title: Body and soul; title: Knowledge of harm; title: Justice as inspiration; title: Apology and history; title: Social evils; title: Fear of illness and death; title: Celebrity; title: Health and appearance; title: Abstinence and fasting; title: Adornment; title: Drugs and laws; title: Laughter; title: Praise; title: God; title: Mortification; title: Remorse; title: Ethics in business; title: Profit; title: Science and religion; title: Democracy; title: History; title: Love; title: Stendhal on love; title: Science and rationality; title: Education and the Internet; title: Knowing that and knowing how; title: Robots; title: Gender and sex; title: Gender and research; title: Scientific literacy; title: Personal identity; title: Brain and mind; title: Climate change; title: Ape and man; title: Synecology; title: Longevity; title: Water; title: Stem cells; title: Cities; title: Unconscious knowledge; title: Political rhetoric; title: Hope; title: Renaissance portraits; title: Shock art; title: The Byzantine idea; title: Free speech and political correctness; title: Altruism; title: Plastic surgery; title: Appearance; title: Education; title: Intelligence pills; title: Genius; title: Symbols; title: Employment; title: Confucius; title: The moral worth of truth; title: Relativism; title: Doing ill to the bad; title: Smoking; title: Hypocrisy; title: Parental rights; title: Money; title: Shakespeare the thinker; title: Shakespeare's humanism; title: Haste and speed; title: Protest; title: Philosophy in education; title: Goodness; title: Human beings; title: Travelling; title: Civil liberties; title: A good world; title: A new Ten Commandments; title: Taking action; title: Waste; title: Change; title: Happiness; title: Sport; title: Philosophy; title: Enlightenment; title: Evil; title: Prudery; title: Inarticulacy; title: The case of Ashley X; title: Contrarianism; title: Authority; title: Eccentricity; title: Religion; title: Existence; title: Self-deception; title: The meaning of life.