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Title: Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age by A. C. Grayling ISBN: 0-19-515158-5 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Very Enjoyable Read - but read the caveat
Comment: Beware : this is actually a perfect duplicate of "The Meaning of Things" - so don't be fooled or mislead into buying the same book twice, like I was.
However, here is my review for "The Meaning of Things" :
I'm sure any reader of this book will take away some favourite sections. For me, the consecutively-placed entries on Betrayal, Loyalty & Blame were exemplary juxtapositions of those complementary topics.
I would also recommend the entry on Racism.
Given the brevity of the articles, sure they can't give you an in-depth discussion on the topic, but its just deep enough to get one thinking about the topics.
I think this would be an excellent 'pocket-book' to dip into for anyone in their late teens trying to come to terms with the world.
Having read this book, I moved directly to reading Graylings follow-up book, The Reason of Things.
Only disappointment - no Bibliography, so when Grayling frequently quotes other Authors / Philosophers, I don't know where to go to for further reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ethics without the burden of religion
Comment: "Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age" is a collection of 61 short essays, many only 2 pages long, that are meant to prompt reflection on a range of ethical questions and other issues of the human condition. As the title suggests, the book attempts (quite successfully) to address its topics from a perspective orthogonal to that of Christianity and other religious systems. The longest essays are, however, "Christianity" and "Faith," and Grayling does discuss religious viewpoints when relevant.
Grayling writes with wit and his arguments are both persuasive and well reasoned (other than his essay, "Speciesism," which uses the underlying false argument that 0.98 is so close to 1 that (0.98)^n = 1 for any n.) But the best reason to read "Meditations for the Humanist" is that it is uplifting in its ethical and moral message - and by being so proves many of its points.
Rating: 5
Summary: A jewel of practical philosophy
Comment: This excellent collection of short, pithy, elegant essays on life's great questions is a best-seller in England, where it was first published, and it attracted rave reviews which your readers should know about (all the following appear on the British paperback edition): "Grayling writes with clarity, elegance, and the occasional aphoristic twist, conscious of standing in that long essayistic tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and Thoreau" (Sunday Telegraph); "This is a book to be dipped into and savoured over time; deeply humane and subtle in its thought as well as being imbued with a rare spirit of enlightenment" (Financial Times); "Astute and informative" (Independent on Sunday); "The essays are neatly turned, well researched, and dense with quotations from an impressive variety of sources; I admire the sheer courage of the undertaking - there is much to like" (Sunday Times);"Enlightened and enlightening" (Private Eye);"Grayling combines wide learning with wise argument to fulfil the role he assigns to these essays - to be prommpts to reflection" (Freethinker); and so on for many more. - I think this book makes a difference for the good, and everyone should read it.
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Title: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God by A. C. Grayling ISBN: 0195162528 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Humanist Anthology: From Confucius to Attenborough by Margaret Knight, Edward Blishen, Jim Herrick ISBN: 0879759577 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: September, 1995 List Price(USD): $33.00 |
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Title: The Philosophy of Humanism by Corliss Lamont ISBN: 0931779073 Publisher: Humanist Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Spirituality for the Skeptic: The Thoughtful Love of Life by Robert C. Solomon ISBN: 0195134672 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to Philosophical Logic by A. C. Grayling ISBN: 0631199829 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers Pub. Date: January, 1998 List Price(USD): $37.95 |
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