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These brief essays serve as springboards 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 if one's life is to have some degree of shape and direction.\" The book is divided into three sections-Virtues and Attributes, Foes and Fallacies, and Amenities and Goods-and within these sections essays are grouped into related clusters. But each piece can be read alone and each is characterized by brevity, wit, and a liveliness of mind that recalls the best of Montaigne and Samuel Johnson. Grayling's own perspective on these subjects is broadened and deepened by liberal quotations from Sophocles and Shakespeare to Byron, Twain, Proust, Simone de Beauvoir, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others.\u003cbr\u003e For those wishing to explore ethical issues outside the framework of organized religious belief, Meditations for the Humanist offers an inviting map to the country of philosophical reflection.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599427412241,"sku":"GOR006174559","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50304384303377,"sku":"CIN0195168909G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":50999796433169,"sku":"NIN9780195168907","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51470369358097,"sku":"CIN0195168909VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51882925883665,"sku":"CIN0195168909A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0195168909.jpg?v=1751195529"},{"product_id":"meditations-for-the-humanist-book-grayling-9780195151589","title":"Meditations for the Humanist","description":"\"Magnanimity is in short supply,\" writes A. 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A recurring theme is religion, of which he writes \"there is no greater social evil.\" He argues, for instance, that liberal education is better than religion for inculcating moral values. \"Education in literature, history, and appreciation of the arts,\" he says, \"opens the possibility for us to live more reflectively and knowledgeably, especially about the nature and variety of human experience. That in turn increases our capacity for understanding others better, so that we can treat them with respect and sympathy, however different their outlook on life.\" Thought provoking rather than definitive, these essays don't tell readers what to think, but only note what has been thought about how it is best to live.\u003cbr\u003e A person who does not think about life, the author reminds us, is like a stranger mapless in a foreign land. 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