Thinking of Answers: Questions in the Philosophy of Everyday Life

The essays in this book, drawn mainly from A. C. Grayling's columns in Prospect, the Dubliner and The Times, are in fact responses to questions set by editors and readers.

If beauty existed only in the eye of the beholder, would that make it an unimportant quality?

Are human rights political?

Can ethics be derived from evolution by natural selection?

If both sides in a conflict can passionately believe that theirs is the just cause, does this mean that the idea of justice is empty?

Does being happy make us good? And does being good make us happy?

Are human beings especially prone to self deception?