From the eminent philosopher, an authentic exploration of the big questions about how to live.

“There is a question that everyone must ask and answer - in fact, we must keep asking and answering it. It is, ‘How should I live my life?’, which means, ‘What values should I live by?’. What kind of person should I be? What should I strive for?’

The vast majority of people do not ask this question, they simply answer it uncritically, adopting conventional views about life and what matters in it.

From the Stoics to existentialists, in philosophy and literature, the discussion surrounding the philosophy of life - love and death, courage, resilience, and wisdom - challenges us all to think about what lives are truly worth living.

In this summary of a lifetime of thought and writing around this great question, A. C. Grayling clearly and deeply explores the ideas that each of us must use to answer it for ourselves.

Referring to the lives, experiences, and works of a fantastically diverse group of thinkers - including not only philosophers like Confucius, Seneca, and Nietzsche, but also writers from Shakespeare to Ursula K. Le Guin, as well as contemporary thinkers like Martha Nussbaum and Bernard Williams - “Philosophy and Life” gathers wisdom from various eras and continents into an impressive work on the philosophy of the human being in a complex world.

Pages: 448, Dimensions: 13x13cm