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Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-04-05
Total Pages: 610
ISBN-13: 0802717373
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A non-religious, humanist reference draws on secular literature and philosophy from both Western and Eastern traditions to consider such topics as the origins of the world, how to relate to others, and how to appreciate life.
Author: Cheryl Freier
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-01-11
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1468524054
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What would you have done if you were faced with a war that brought soldiers to your doorstep to displace you from you home and business, and family, and place of worship; a war that defied all reason and law; a war that was generated from the minds of psychopaths who were capable of taking over country after country until they took over the entire world? Could you have been one of the characters in this book?
Author: S.R. Jaye
Publisher: Three Jays Press LLC
Published: 2023-01-22
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unmatched fairy tale retelling of beauty and wonder. The reward is in the journey - true beauty is more than skin deep… A narrow escape. A flight out of darkness. Into the light and a realm beyond imagination and wonder. But is the Seelie Realm prepared for the Grayling Fae? Maisie Jayne Rose has been “rescued” from the clutches of the mortal king’s henchmen by fae warriors from the Seelie Court. Or has she? When the fae warriors present her to Raiden, the Fairy King, she realizes she’s very much his prisoner… The Seelie Court is the court of Spring and Summer, full of light and magic. But autumn and winter are coming. Frost has fallen in the brilliant gardens and forests of the Seelie. And with the unnatural changing of seasons, danger increases that the Seelie Realm will fall to the dark powers of the Fairy Queen, ruler of the Unseelie Court of Autumn and Winter. If the Seelie Realm falls, the Mortal Realm will follow… Maisie meets Rylan, the Fairy King’s son and begins to realize that the Seelie may need her as much as she needs them…
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1408837420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a very great deal at stake in the debate. This book thoroughly and calmly examines all the arguments and associated considerations offered in support of religious belief, and does so in full consciousness of the reasons people have for subscribing to religion, and the needs they seek to satisfy by doing so. And because it takes account of all the issues, its solutions carry great weight. The God Argument is the definitive examination of the issue, and a statement of the humanist outlook that recommends itself as the ethics of the genuinely reflective person.
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0241980860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1786072904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The EU referendum in the UK and Trump’s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy and Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, and why it matters. First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered and what solutions were found. Then he lays bare the specific threats facing democracy today. The paperback edition includes new material on the reforms that are needed to make our system truly democratic.
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2020-02-27
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1786077191
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary – among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age at which you can marry, gamble, join the army and must pay taxes if you work) – to ensure the intentions of such a constitution could not be subverted or ignored. As democracies around the world show signs of decay, the issue of what makes a good state, one that is democratic in the fullest sense of the word, could not be more important. To take just one example: by the simplest of measures, neither Britain nor the United States can claim to be truly democratic. The most basic tenet of democracy is that no voice be louder than any other. Yet in our ‘first past the post’ electoral systems a voter supporting a losing candidate is unrepresented, his or her voice unequal to one supporting a winning candidate, who frequently does not gain a majority of the votes cast. This is just one of a number of problems, all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world.
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0861542673
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →‘A must read’ Gordon Brown ‘A truly excellent book’ Sir David King The three biggest challenges facing the world today, in A. C. Grayling’s view, are climate change, technology and justice. In his timely new book, he asks: can human beings agree on a set of values that will allow us to confront the numerous threats facing the planet, or will we simply continue with our disagreements and antipathies as we collectively approach our possible extinction? As every day brings new stories about extreme weather events, spyware, lethal autonomous weapons systems, and the health imbalance between the northern and southern hemispheres, Grayling’s question – Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? – becomes ever more urgent. The solution he proposes is both pragmatic and inspiring.
Author: Carroll Raymond Norden
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 456
ISBN-13:
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