A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups.
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: Good Book
Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: Among the Dead Cities
Britain and the USA carried out a massive bombing offensive against the cities of Germany and Japan in the course of the Second World War, which ended with the destruction of Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: The Age of Genius
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from th …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Scepticism as a philosophical term is as old as the Greeks but has more recently been advanced by Montaigne, Descartes and Hume. To these, what little we know that seems certain is based on observati …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge
Scepticism as a philosophical term is as old as the Greeks but has more recently been advanced by Montaigne, Descartes and Hume. To these, what little we know that seems certain is based on observati …
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A. C. Grayling: Among the Dead Cities
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century – the age of ‘total war’ – marked the first time that civilian populations cam …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: Towards the Light
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for th …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: Towards the Light
In Towards the Light, A.C. Grayling tells the story of the long and difficult battle for freedom in the West, from the Reformation to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from the battle for th …
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A. C. Grayling: Among the Dead Cities
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century – the age of ‘total war’ – marked the first time that civilian populations cam …
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: God Argument
A powerful argument for humanism as an alternative to organized religion, by New York Times bestselling author A.C. Grayling, one of the world’s leading public intellectuals.What are the arguments fo …
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: Age of Genius
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. It was a time of cre …
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: Challenge of Things
A. C. Grayling’s lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, invariably cause discussion. The Challenge of Things joins earlier …
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A. C. Grayling: Liberty in the Age of Terror
An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater ‘security”A rollicking defence of Freedom and Enlightenment in the style of Tom …
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A. C. Grayling: Thinking of Answers
Thought-provoking short essays by Britain’s leading public philosopher that show us how to discover our own answers to life’s challenges’While most philosophy is written in abstruse and ponderous pro …
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A. C. Grayling: God Argument
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 de …
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: Good Book
Drawing on the wisdom of 2, 500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human – from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday …
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Professor A. C. Grayling: Towards the Light
The often-violent conflicts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries were sparked by the pursuit of freedom of thought. In time, this drive led to bitter fighting, including the English Civil War. Th …
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: Challenge of Things
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 collec …
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Grayling A. C. Grayling: Friendship
An entertaining and provocative investigation of friendship in all its variety, from ancient times to the present day A central bond, a cherished value, a unique relationship, a profound human need, …
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A. C. Grayling: Against All Gods
Do religions have an inherent right to be respected? Is atheism itself a form of religion, and can there be such a thing as a ‘fundamentalist atheist’? Are we witnessing a global revival in religious …
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A. C. Grayling: To Set Prometheus Free
In 2007 Anthony Grayling wrote Against All Gods, a collection of polemical essays attacking religion. Now in To Set Prometheus Free he develops those themes more comprehensively, unpicking the claims …
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