Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age

Magnanimity is in short supply, writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes the world a better place And indeed Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age is itself a generous, insightful, wide-ranging, magnanimous inquiry into the philosophical and ethical questions that bear most strongly on the human condition. Containing nearly fifty linked commentaries on topics ranging from love, lying, perseverance, revenge, racism, religion, history, loyalty, health, and leisure, Meditations for the Humanist does not offer definitive statements but rather prompts to reflection. These brief essays serve asspringboards to the kind of thoughtful examination without which, as Socrates famously claimed, life is not worth living. As Graying notes in his introduction, It is not necessary to arrive at polished theories on all these subjects, but it is necessary to give them at least a modicum of thought ifone's life is to