The Heart of Things

by A.C. Grayling

Book Overview

The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. Grayling

Everyone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of people one, in turn, respects. And one of the fundamentals to living such a life is to reflect on the choices we make.

In this new collection, A.C. Grayling invites the reader...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0753819414
• ISBN13: 9780753819418
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Phoenix House
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Not the Best Work by Grayling

A. C. Grayling is a "professional philosopher," and those of us that enjoy all that professional philosophy bring us are easily happy with this and his other books. BUT, this book, like a series of publications storming the citadel, are not of the "professional" arcane nuanced kind. These short essays go directly to most of our practical concerns, without the arcane language of epistemology, axiology, praexeology, ontology, and more sophisticated subjects. BUT don't think this material "light weight." It's merely accessible, in ways that professionals get tongue-tied using the Greek fundamentals. Following the success of Robert Solomon's corpus, Grayling is more succinct, just as valuable, and even more accessible. Maybe, now, we can engage metaphysics of psychology, religion, superstition, voodoo, and chiropractic -- with the hard facts, the known classical values, and even upend the "traditional biblical moral values" and all the hypocrisy with humanistic values. If any two philosophers can, Solomon and Grayling are it. So, are the other (supra.) reviewers out of it, or simply opposed to humanistic values of knowledge. Read Grayling and discover the answer for yourselves.