A.C. Grayling

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April 03, 1949 in Luanshya, Zambia

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Anthony Clifford Grayling, FRSA, FRSL (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author. He is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London and a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. He has an MA and a DPhil from Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.
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Average rating: 3.95 · 4,425 ratings · 360 reviews · 42 distinct works

	The Meaning of Things: Applying Philosophy to Life 3.80 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2001 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction 3.64 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God 3.78 avg rating — 83 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Reason Of Things 3.78 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Good Book: A Secular Bible 3.67 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age 4.00 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness 4.02 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide For The 21st Century 4.17 avg rating — 72 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan 3.91 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	What Is Good? 3.83 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

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“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
― A.C. Grayling, The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

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“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
― A.C. Grayling

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