What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live

Anthony Grayling

ISBN 10: 0297841327 / ISBN 13: 9780297841326

Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live
• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0297841327
• ISBN 13: 9780297841326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1758012871.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 7701082
• Signed: 9/16/2025 8:54:31 AM
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Synopsis

In his major new book A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different conceptions of what a good life should be: one is a broadly secular view rooted in attitudes about human nature and the human condition; the other is a broadly transcendental view which locates the source of moral value outside the human realm. In the modern world - the world shaped by the rise of science in the seventeenth century - these two views have come increasingly into conflict, and the constantly accumulating tension between them is one of the greatest problems faced by the twenty-first century. Using his renowned clarity of thought and philosophical rigour, AC Grayling has produced an invaluable guide through mankind's ethical struggle to live decently.

About the Author

Anthony Grayling teaches philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and is a Fellow of St Anne's, Oxford. He reviews regularly in the Financial Times. He has a regular column in Prospect and the Guardian on Saturday.