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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.
Publish Date
2010
Publisher
Walker,
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
Walker & Company
Language
English
Pages
338
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Thinking of answers: questions in the philosophy of everyday life
2010, Walker, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Walker & Company
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- 1st U.S. ed.
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Table of Contents
Happiness and the good
Morality and empathy
Friendship
The moral and the ethical
The entitlement to moralise
Ethics and Darwin
Human rights and politics
Poverty
Is beauty subjective?
Proving a negitive
Body and soul
Knowledge of harm
Justice as inspiration
Apology and history
Social evils
Fear of illness and death
Celebrity
Health and appearance
Abstinence and fasting
Adornment
Drugs and laws
Laughter
Praise
God
Mortification
Remorse
Ethics in business
Profit
Science and religion
Democracy
History
Love
Stendhal on love
Science and rationality
Education and the Internet
Knowing that and knowing how
Robots
Gender and sex
Gender and research
Scientific literacy
Personal identity
Brain and mind
Climate change
Ape and man
Synecology
Longevity
Water
Stem cells
Cities
Unconscious knowledge
Political rhetoric
Hope
Renaissance portraits
Shock art
The Byzantine idea
Free speech and political correctness
Altruism
Plastic surgery
Appearance
Education
Intelligence pills
Genius
Symbols
Employment
Confucius
The moral worth of truth
Relativism
Doing ill to the bad
Smoking
Hypocrisy
Parental rights
Money
Shakespeare the thinker
Shakespeare's humanism
Haste and speed
Protest
Philosophy in education
Goodness
Human beings
Travelling
Civil liberties
A good world
A new Ten Commandments
Taking action
Waste
Change
Happiness
Sport
Philosophy
Enlightenment
Evil
Prudery
Inarticulacy
The case of Ashley X
Contrarianism
Authority
Eccentricity
Religion
Existence
Self-deception
The meaning of life.
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Includes index.
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