Explores important contemporary political and cultural issues from a philosophical perspective in a highly accessible style and format.
Acknowledgements
Editor's Introduction
Environment
p. 1
Editor's Introduction
p. 3
We Are Part of Our Ecosystem
p. 5
The Cost of Growth: Climate Change, Crisis, and Chaos
p. 23
Religion
p. 39
Editor's Introduction
p. 41
Religion Without Belief: the Example of Quakerism's Political 'Consequences'
p. 44
Which is Worse: Death or Dying?
p. 57
(How) Is Forgiveness Possible?
p. 66
Politics
p. 89
Editor's Introduction
p. 91
How I Learned to Love Noam Chomsky
p. 93
Rings, Power, Fear and Politics
p. 110
Art
p. 119
Editor's Introduction
p. 121
Eliot for Art's Sake (or: The Ideal of an 'Actual Art')
p. 123
Conclusion: Philosophy for Life
p. 135
Further Reading
p. 140
Bibliography
p. 155
Index
p. 163
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