Life, Sex and Ideas The Good Life without God

Short and elegantly written, this volume contains 60 essays organized under the categories of moral matters, public culture, community and society, anger and war, and grief and remembrance.

A.C. Grayling is a British literary journalist and university professor of philosophy, who contributes the weekly column "The Reason of Things" to The London Times and writes frequently for Financial Times and The New York Review of Books. He is a Reader in Philosophy at Birbeck College, University of London, and Supernumerary Fellow of St. Anne's College, Oxford. His books include Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age.

Introduction

xi

Moral Matters

Emotion

3

(3)

Moral Education

6

(5)

Emancipation and Ethics

11

(5)

Symbols

16

(4)

Religion

20

(4)

Credulity

24

(3)

Fasting

27

(3)

Meat

30

(3)

Evil

33

(3)

Luxury

36

(3)

Games

39

(3)

Marriage

42

(3)

Sex

45

(15)

Benevolence

60

(3)

Morality

63

(6)

Public Culture

Identity

69

(3)

Cultures

72

(4)

Conservation

76

(6)

Teachers

82

(2)

Intellectuals

84

(7)

Community and Society

Politics

91

(3)

Voting

94

(3)

Utopia

97

(4)

Profit

101

(3)

Power

104

(2)

Protest

106

(3)

Justice

109

(3)

Liberty

112

(4)

Pluralism

116

(5)

Anger and War

Anger

121

(3)

Conflict

124

(2)

Guns

126

(3)

War

129

(3)

War's Causes

132

(3)

Western Victories

135

(3)

Triumph

138

(3)

Safety

141

(3)

War Crimes

144

(2)

Vengeance

146

(2)

Capital Punishment

148

(3)

Bystanders

151

(3)

Slavery

154

(3)

Experience

157

(6)

Grief and Remembrance

Suicide

163

(3)

Loss

166

(3)

Obsequies

169

(3)

Remembrance

172

(5)

Nature and Naturalness

Naturalness

177

(4)

Nature

181

(3)

Monsters

184

(3)

Madness

187

(6)

Clones

193

(3)

Decay

196

(5)

Reading and Thinking

The Essay

201

(5)

Reading and Reviewing

206

(9)

Biography

215

(4)

Becoming Philosophical

219

(9)

Philosophy

228

(3)

Reality

231

(3)

Values and Knowledge

234

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Life, Sex and Ideas The Good Life without God

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