What Is Good?

by A.C. Grayling
What Is Good?
published
February 5th 2004 by Phoenix Press
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Paperback, 256 pages

isbn
0753817551   (isbn13: 9780753817551)

description
One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by and which codes we will use to gui...more





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Excerpted from p.141:
"the good life for human individuals certainly requires the best of both traditions (the Enlightenment and Romanticism) but arguably it least requires the worst aspects of Romanticism if these come down to yielding authority to such things as race, the Hero, the Genius, the Leader, tradition, nature, untutored emotions, visions, supernatural beings and the like."
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