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What Is Good?

by A.C. Grayling · 2003

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With clarity of thought and philosophical rigour, A.C. Grayling provides a valuable guide through mankind's ethical struggle to live decently. Focusing on two very different conceptions, he examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present.

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adult
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medium · 288 pages

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