The challenge of things: thinking through troubled times

✍ Scribed by A. C. Grayling

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also Read more...

Abstract: A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writings on the world in a time of war and conflict. In describing and exposing the dark side of things, he also explores ways out of the habits and prejudices of mind that would otherwise trap us forever in the deadly impasses of conflicts of all kinds.Whether he is writing about the First World War and its legacy, free speech, the advantages of an atheist prime minister or the role of science in the arts, his essays are always enlightening, enlivening and hopeful

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Intro
Title
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
DESTRUCTIONS and DECONSTRUCTIONS
The First World War
The Ethics of Drones
Irredentism and Associated Evils
Guns
The Berlinâ#x80
#x93
Baghdad Railway
The Killing of Osama Bin Laden
The Future of the World
When China Rules the World
China and Human Rights
Chinaâ#x80
#x99
s Games
Opium
A Christian Nation?
Unjust Justice
What We Owe the Dead
Black Poison
Death and Taxes
Religion and Education
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#x98
Many Faiths, One Truthâ#x80
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Religion and Public Service
The Power of the Press and Â Â the Press of a Button Irrationality, Immaturity, Braggadocio, Â Â PutinSpain and Rome
Superstition
The Advantages of Atheist Political Â Â Leaders
Hard-Wired for God?
The Prophetess
The New Puritanism
The Global Financial Crisis
Climate Change
The Force of Nature
CONSTRUCTIONS and CREATIONS
The Public Intellectual
Wisdom, Mind and Brain
Neurophilosophy
The Brain and History
The Triumph of Science
Science and Democracy
Making Mistakes and Apologising
Does Government Know Best?
Beyond Subsistence
A Hard Choice
Archiepiscopal Ethics
Free Speech
The Care and Maintenance of Â Â Friends The Book of the DeadDarwin in Scotland
Tocqueville on America
Quantum Dirac
Thucydides
Montaigne
Socrates
Edmund Burke
The Unity of the Good
H. G. Wells and Mr Lewisham
Fishing with a Golden Hook
Speeches
Sleep
Success
Retirement
Happiness
Teachers
Education and Rationality
What is the Point of the Arts?
Darkness
The Hinges of History
The Whole Life: The Point of the Â Â Humanities
Optimism
Making the World a Better Place
Index
A Note on the Author
Also by A. C. Grayling
Copyright

✦ Subjects

Philosophy;Thought and thinking;War;Religion;Violence;Conduct of life;Philosophy;Philosophy;Essays;Prose: non-fiction

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