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Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store can be an enlightening and uplifting experience. This wise and illuminating book aims to give us invaluable 'sketch maps' to what is truly important in living life, whether one is facing success, failure, passion, intolerance, love, loss or any other of life's profound experiences.
' Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist, conscious of Standing in that long essayistic tradition that runs from Montaigne and Bacon to Emerson and Thoreau '. — Sunday Telegraph
' This is a book to be dipped into and savoured over time... deeply humane and subtle in its thought as well as being imbued with a rare spirit of enlightenment '. — Financial Times
Anthony Grayling teachcs philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and is a Fellow of St Anne's, Oxford. He reviews frequently in the Financial Times and has a regular column in Prospect.
Audio books, unlike ordinary books, are a lot more useful and time efficient in the long run. To sit down and read a book can be a very enjoyable experience but unfortunately only when time permits. A lot of us therefore find us putting aside the books for more pressing matters, with audio books however you can do both. Audio books give you the freedom to listen anywhere, just by simply putting it on a MP3 player. For most book fanatics space is a real issue and usually their houses end up looking like a library. Since audiobooks are portable and in music file format such as Mp3 or WMA the space that’s really being used up is your hard drive which takes up a minuscule amount in comparison. So for the busy individual where free time is somewhat of a luxury, audio books may just be the solution you have been looking for, a way to combine free time and work effortlessly. |
Kierkegaard in 90 MinutesAuthor : Paul StrathernPerformed By : Robert WhitfieldPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 2 hoursType : PhilosophyDownload Price : $14.95 $9.95
Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy. He didn't write about the world, he wrote about life, about how we live and how... More info...
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St AugustineAuthor : Professor Robert O'ConnellPerformed By : Charlton HestonPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 2 hoursType : PhilosophyDownload Price : $9.95
Aurelius Augustinus was a key figure in the transition from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. He lived at a time when no distinction was made between philosophy and theology, and the purpose ... More info...
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Nietzsche in 90 MinutesAuthor : Paul StrathernPerformed By : Robert WhitfieldPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 2 hoursType : PhilosophyDownload Price : $14.95 $9.95
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ended up going mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequenc... More info...
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Immanuel KantAuthor : A. J. MandtPerformed By : Charlton HestonPublished By - Blackstone Audio IncDuration : 2 hours 30 minutesType : PhilosophyDownload Price : $9.95
Before Kant, philosophers had debated for centuries whether knowledge is derived from experience or reason. Kant says that both views are partly right and partly wrong, that they share the same err... More info...
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