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050 00 $aBJ1360$b.G72 2003
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100 1 $aGrayling, A. C.
245 10 $aLife, sex, and ideas :$bthe good life without God /$cA.C. Grayling.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2003.
300 $axiv, 236 pages ;$c22 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002.
505 0 $aMoral matters. Emotion -- Moral education -- Emancipation and ethics -- Symbols -- Religion -- Credulity -- Fasting -- Meat -- Evil -- Luxury -- Games -- Marriage -- Sex -- Benevolence -- Morality -- Public culture. Identity -- Cultures -- Conservation -- Teachers -- Intellectuals -- Community and society. Politics -- Voting -- Utopia -- Profit -- Power -- Protest -- Justice -- Liberty -- Pluralism -- Anger and war. Anger -- Conflict -- Guns -- War -- War's causes -- Western victories -- Triumph -- Safety -- War crimes -- Vengeance -- Capital punishment -- Bystanders -- Slavery -- Experience -- Grief and remembrance. Suicide -- Loss -- Obsequies -- Remembrance -- Nature and naturalness. Naturalness -- Nature -- Monsters -- Madness -- Clones -- Decay -- Reading and thinking. The essay -- Reading and reviewing -- Biography -- Becoming philosophical -- Philosophy -- Reality -- Values and knowledge.
520 $a"A distinctive voice somewhere between Mark Twain and Michel Montaigne" is how Psychology Today described A.C. Grayling. In Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God, readers have the pleasure of hearing this distinctive voice address some of the most serious topics in philosophy---and in our daily lives---including reflections on guns, anger, conflict, war; monsters, madness, decay; liberty, utopia; suicide, loss, and remembrance.
520 $aA civilized society, says Grayling, is one which never ceases having a discussion with itself about what human life should best be. In this book, Grayling adds to this discussion a series of short informal essays about ethics, ideas, and culture. A recurring theme is religion, of which he writes "there is no greater social evil." He argues, for instance, that liberal education is better than religion for inculcating moral values. "Education in literature, history, and appreciation of the arts," he says, "opens the possibility for us to live more reflectively and knowledgeably, especially about the nature and variety of human experience. That in turn increases our capacity for understanding others better, so that we can treat them with respect and sympathy, however different their outlook on life." Thought provoking rather than definitive, these essays don't tell readers what to think, but only note what has been thought about how it is best to live.
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650 0 $aHumanistic ethics.
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650 07 $aAtheismus.$2swd
650 07 $aLebenssinn.$2swd
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655 4 $aNonfiction.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGrayling, A.C.$tLife, sex, and ideas.$dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003$w(OCoLC)605995945
776 08 $iOnline version:$aGrayling, A.C.$tLife, sex, and ideas.$dOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003$w(OCoLC)606952431
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