Ac grayling the good book download ac grayling the good book free. Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, and the literary skill to conceive of a powerful secular alternative to the bible. A c grayling ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Get 50% off this audiobook at the audiobooksnow online audio book store and download or stream it right to your computer, smartphone or tablet. While the title listed in the add is the good book. A book of extraordinary audacity from a remarkable thinkera secular bible drawn from the wisdom and humanity in the worlds great literature. The good book is a book of insight, inspiration, wisdom, solace and commentary on the human condition drawn from the great humanist traditions of thought and literature of the world. Grayling has done, creating a nonreligious bible drawn from the wealth of secular. The good book 890 printed pages drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative nonreligious writing on all that it means to be human from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life a. The good book consciously takes its design and presentation from the bible, in the beauty of its language and its arrangement into short chapters and verses, offering to the nonreligious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of various secular humanist traditions. William hazlitt is an acquired taste, but a great one the philosopher discusses steinbecks short novels, heroworship, and bertrand russell. You can also download their free short course on humanism ebook. A spirited repudiation of pies and deities in the sky in favor of an ethic that is about this world.
Eleven extended essays have been specially commissioned from leading philosophers. Philosophy is a rather strange business in the modern world of consumerism and commerce, i suppose. The good book mirrors the bible in both form and language, and is, as its author says, ambitious and hubristic a distillation of the best that has been thought and said by people whove. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects, and has written on nonwestern philosop. The age of genius explores the eventful intertwining of outward event and inner intellectual life to tell, in all its richness and depth, the story of the 17th century in europe. Contributing to the conversation society has with itself about possibilities for good lives in good societies a. This concentration on the afterlife alone, in my book, marks it as a religion. Grayling first makes the distinction between the consolations of belief and the. He was born in northern rhodesia now zambia and spent most of his childhood there and in nyasaland now malawi. A defence of civil liberties and enlightenment values by. She thereby confessed that she did not have such a mandate already. The case against religion and for humanism, 2014, etc. One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value what principles we want to live by and which codes we will use to guide our behaviour.
Buy a cheap copy of the good book by bill swainson. Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, the good book offers a thoughtful, nonreligious. The good book can t be bettered the philosopher ac grayling has created a secular bible, but its guidance for a good life fails to convince genevieve. Grayling, britains most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible. Like the bible, the good book, opens with a garden scene. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. In that book, the choice of hercules, where i discuss the tension between the good life in the sybaritic sense of wine, women and song, and on the other hand the good life in the sense of the puritan virtues, my argument is that they are both important, and that a blend of the two is constitutive of a third and better version of the good life. A new collection of essays from grayling philosophynew coll. Grayling explains he has spent several decades on his ambitious project, distilling what he. A fellow of the world economic forum and past chairman of the human rights organization june fourth, he contributes frequently to the times london, the. Grayling the times the story of philosophy is an epic tale. Its aim is not to persuade readers to accept one particular philosophical point of view or theory, but to help us consider the wonderful range of insights which can be drawn from an.
He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects, and has. This 700 page book is written in the same format as the bible with the modern numbering of sections of the bible. Ac grayling bbc video interview tackling the good book the sydney morning herald the new atheists are responding, not attacking new humanist pressing questions for our century edge ac graylings top 5 nonreligious books slate a. Mrs may called a general election to get a mandate for the brexit negotiations. Grayling is professor of philosophy at birkbeck college, university of london, and a multitalented author. It is truly written in the style of the bible grayling has taken the collected wisdom of hundreds of secular.
This book is an accessible, lively and thoughtprovoking series of linked commentaries, based on a. Grayling answers the most important question how do we live a good life. It is intended to orientate, assist, and stimulate the reader at every stage in the study of the subject. The challenge of things joins earlier collections like the reason of things and thinking of answers, but this time to collect graylings recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. Even beyond that, it has assimilated a lot of animistic ideas and fused. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app.
The books run from genesis to the good, by way of parables, lamentations, songs, histories and epistles, each broken up into chapter and verse, in mimicry of that. Note that grayling lays his book out like the bible with similar referencing. For humanist essays on the value of life, art, the environment, and freedom see is nothing. Essential readings for the nonbeliever, and the good book, and more on. Grayling believes, distracts from seeking the good life in the. Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, andyesthe audacity to conceive of a powerful. Grayling is a professor of philosophy at birkbeck college, university of london. What is good the search for the best way to livenook book. Ac graylings steamroller attack on religion as the catchall enemy of progress fatally banjaxes this book. A secular bible, the title appearing on my copies are, the good book. Genesis, ch 1220 for since the quality of bodies are only known to us by experiment, we are to hold for universal all such as universally agree with experiment. Download ac grayling the good book joshdanielsphotography.
The eu referendum of june 2016, advertised to all as advisory, resulted. Grayling, in oxford, england, spent 30 years compiling the good book. A secular bible 1st edition by grayling, professor a. Graylings lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative nonreligious writing on all that it means to be human from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life a. The good book consciously takes its design and presentation from the bible, in the beauty of its language and its pdf arrangement into short chapters and verses, offering to the nonreligious seeker all the wisdom, insight, solace, inspiration, and perspective of various secular humanist traditions. In 2011 he founded and became the first master of new college of the humanities, an independent undergraduate college in london.
Grayling discusses creating a nonreligious bible that draws from the wealth of secular literature and philosophy in both western and eastern traditions. Londonbased academic and philosopher grayling to set prometheus free, 2010, etc. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. Grayling has 71 books on goodreads with 110376 ratings. Stimulating, thoughtful, rational and rewarding, it is now published in a compact edition. 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. The author organizes this thoughtprovoking collection of essaysmost of them a concise three to four pagesinto. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The good book is a manifesto for rational thought, but mirrors the bible in both form and language. He is the author of the acclaimed among the dead cities, descartes, toward the light of liberty, meditations for the humanist, and thinking of answers. And much like the bestselling king james bible, which is celebrating its 400th year, his book is written in a type of english that transcends time.