A C Grayling

Articles by A C Grayling

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The empty name of God

  • 09 April 2009
  • 24 comments

'The basic doctrines of the major religions have their roots in the superstitions and fancies of illiterate peasants living several thousand years ago'

Playing God

  • 27 November 2006
  • 1 comment

Religious belief is not just a philosophical issue - it divides families and societies. That is why theatre is uniquely placed to explore it

NS Essay - 'If we did anything questionable in the war, we should have the maturity to admit it and learn from it'

  • 27 February 2006

The area bombing of civilians by the Allies in the lead-up to 1945 went beyond the limits of a just war, argues A C Grayling. If historians refuse to accept this, they are irresponsible and wrong

We've never had it so good. It has become fashionable to do down the present - whether because of television, consumerism or political correctness. But did things really used to be so much better? A C Grayling stands up for modern life

  • 23 January 2006

Plato's Children: the state we are in Anthony O'Hear Gibson Square Books, 239pp, £14.99 ISBN 1903933463 The Retreat of Reason: political correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain Anthony Browne Civitas, 94pp, £9.50

Erotic adventures

  • 28 November 2005

Memoirs of My Dead Life George Moore Kessinger Publishing, 312pp, £21.44 ISBN 1417931949

NS Essay - 'Religious radicals want to limit our freedoms, so to curb free speech is to give them exactly what they want'

  • 18 July 2005

After the events of 7 July, the proposed law to criminalise incitement to racial hatred is even more dangerous, argues A C Grayling. Such laws simply provide weapons for all sides to attack each other

NS Profile - Bernard Williams

  • 02 September 2002

Harold Wilson's philosopher of porn is our greatest thinker on ethics, offering a vision of truth as triumphing over all. Bernard Williams profiled by A C Grayling

Fighting is a last resort

  • 12 August 2002

Aquinas defined the just war. Few conflicts have ever met his criteria

Kant and the Queen Mother

  • 08 April 2002

Philosophers have argued that actions have no moral worth unless done out of a sense of duty. So did this make her late majesty supremely moral? A C Graylingdiscusses

How to make the traffic flow

  • 04 March 2002

A C Graylingthinks his scheme for London's cars is better than Ken Livingstone's

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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