Grief & loneliness depression despair & failure
- those things are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives. Yet it is philosophy which while not providing an answer to these problems can enable us to prepare for them & create strategies with which to deal with them. It is only through reflecting upon the world around us reading thinking questioning enjoying that we can inculcate understanding tolerance & importantly the courage to live our lives. It is our responsibility to live such considered lives & to realise that we are authors of a narrative that can be shaped & controlled. This is the fifth in a series of essay miscellanies from our foremost philosopher A.C. Grayling reflecting upon the form of our world & its multiplicity. The essays are grouped by theme into reflections upon life & the standards we live by including vivid polemics & perceptive pieces on significant thinkers contemporary rights & liberties issues. This book brilliantly articulates the philosophical debate & reflection that is needed to prepare us for life in the twenty-first century.