For the Good of the World, A. C. Grayling
For the Good of the World, A. C. Grayling
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For the Good of the World
Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible?

Author: A. C. Grayling

Narrator: Mike Cooper

Unabridged: 6 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/28/2022

Synopsis

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome themCan we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face?Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries, and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not-impossible extreme, might be extinction?To answer these questions, A. C. Grayling considers the three most pressing challenges facing the world: climate change, technology, and justice, acknowledging that there is no worldwide set of values that can be invoked to underwrite agreements about what to do and not do in the interests of humanity and the planet in all these respects. As extreme weather events increase in frequency, advances in AI and military technology accelerate, and inequities deepen everywhere, the question of how to confront the world’s various problems becomes even more urgent.If there is to be a chance of finding ways to generate universal agreement, the underlying question of values (together with the problem of relativism) has to be addressed. One part of the answer may lie in toleration and convivencia—the basis of coexistence among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Iberian peninsula between the ninth and fifteenth centuries CE.

About A. C. Grayling

A.C. Grayling is the Founder and Principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, and its Professor of Philosophy. Among his many books are The God Argument, Democracy and Its Crisis, The History of Philosophy, The Good State, and The Frontiers of Knowledge. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Independent on Sunday, Economist, New Statesman, Prospect, and New European, and was for a number of years a columnist on the Guardian. He has contributed to BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service, and has appeared on BBC2 Newsnight and CNN News. He has twice been a judge of the Booker Prize, in 2014 serving as the Chair of the judging panel. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a Vice President of Humanists UK, and a Patron of Dignity in Dying. He is a popular speaker at festivals and debates. He lives in London.

About Mike Cooper

Mike Cooper is a talented producer and voiceover artist who has served in a variety of roles at BBC, ITV, and BSkyB. With over twenty years of media experience, he works out of his home studio in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris on April 13, 2024

I really appreciate when these kinds of books are written in plain language that is easy to comprehend. This is a great guide to the practicalities and realities of globalism and how we can figure out the problems we face as inhabitants of earth. I liked it.......more

Goodreads review by Esther on November 07, 2023

The book explores three of humanity’s biggest threats - climate change, technology, and justice - and how global agreement is needed. The book is well written, well researched, and gives great detail on the three issues at hand. Written with a philosophical viewpoint, Grayling provides lots of histo......more

Goodreads review by Tracey on February 28, 2022

In his latest book, For the Good of the World, A.C. Grayling questions whether people can work together to overcome the three most significant threats to humanity in 240 pages. The philosophy professor sees the obstacles as climate change, technology, and justice. Grayling asks whether everyone can......more

Goodreads review by Budge on December 20, 2024

200 pages of text (the rest, Notes, Index, etc.), a handful of which might make you sit up and take note ... if not notice. There's nothing wrong with what he's identifying - we face existential threats from global warming, from the arms race and conflicts between states and ideologies, from pandemi......more

Goodreads review by Yehyeon on January 15, 2024

For the Good of the World - Why Our Planet’s Crises Need Global Agreement Now By A.C. Grayling Of the many crises looming over our heads, Grayling considers three to be particularly urgent, requiring immediate global cooperation to tackle them or at the very least, to mitigate the consequences. Togethe......more

Quotes

“An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humor, common sense, and lucidity.” Independent (London), praise for the author

“Grayling is particularly good at illuminating the knottiness of moral discourse.” Sunday Times (London), praise for the author

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