The Good Book: A Secular Bible - Hardcover

Grayling, Professor A. C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747599602 ISBN 13: 9780747599609

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world's great religions. Instead, going back to traditions older than Christianity, and far richer and more various, including the non-theistic philosophical and literary schools of the great civilisations of both West and East, from the Greek philosophy of classical antiquity and its contemporaneous Confucian, Mencian and Mohist schools in China, down through classical Rome, the flourishing of Indian and Arab worlds, the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, the worldwide scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries to the present, Grayling collects, edits, rearranges and organises the collective secular wisdom of the world in one highly readable volume.

Contents:
Genesis
Proverbs
Histories
Songs
Wisdom
Acts
The Lawgiver
Lamentations
Concord
Consolations
Sages
The Good
Parables

About this title

Review:

Praise for The Meaning of Things

'Deeply humane and subtle in its thought as well as being imbued with a rare spirit of enlightenment' (Financial Times)

'Grayling writes with clarity, elegance and the occasional aphoristic twist...straight alpha material' (Sunday Telegraph)

'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and lucidity' (Independent)

Book Description:

Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human - from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life - A. C. Grayling, Britain's most popular and widely read philosopher, has created a secular bible.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0747599602
• ISBN 13: 9780747599609
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 608