The War for Children's Minds

Duty or Pleasure? The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent, and arguably best known, philosophers

A.C. Grayling aims to answer an important question - how do we live a good life?

Describes Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world. This work describes his search for 'a practical religion not promising future bliss but giving bliss on earth'.

Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free-will give us control over our lives but our minds are dangerous and unpredictable places. We are susceptible to forces we don't understand. We are capable of inflicting immense cruelty on one another. This is a study of the human capacity for good and evil.

Explores how bullshit is distinct from lying. This book argues that bullshitters misrepresent themselves to their audience not as liars do, that is, by deliberately making false claims about what is true. It claims that bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true.

The Oxford Revision Guides series builds on the fact that pictures are easier to memorize than words. Each topic is summarized on a single page using annotated diagrams and concise notes with a full index for easy reference. Expert authors have taken the content of the AS and A Level specifications and presented them in a refreshingly clear and concise format. Simple illustrations are used to ...

Aims to provide engineers with a view of the overall ethical direction of their profession in a way that has direct practical outcomes for their work practices. This book concerns with the overall ethical direction of engineering rather than simply specific moral quandaries.

To what extent should we use technological advances to try to make better human beings? Leading philosophers debate the possibility of enhancing human cognition, mood, personality, and physical performance, and controlling aging. Would this take us beyond the bounds of human nature? These are questions that need to be answered now.

Presents a collection of papers in ancient moral philosophy. This book interprets Aristotle's ethical theory as a response to Protagoras. It ranges from a literary study of Homer's influence on Plato's Protagoras to analytic studies of Aristotle's metaphysics and his ideas about deliberation.

The essays that Jill Stauffer and Bettina Bergo collect in this volume locate multiple affinities between the philosophies of Nietzsche and Levinas. Both philosophers question the nature of subjectivity and the meaning of responsibility after the "death of God." While Nietzsche poses the dilemmas of a self without a ground and of ethics at a time of cultural upheaval and demystification,