How To Be Good

Regular price €25.99
Regular price €26.50 Sale Sale price €25.99
A01=Massimo Pigliucci
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Alcibiades
Ancient Greece
art of living
Author_Massimo Pigliucci
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HP
Category=HPC
Category=HPCD1
Category=QD
Category=QDH
Category=QDHM
Character
classical studies
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_isMigrated=2
equality
ethics
History
How to Be a Stoic
justice
Language_English
leadership
morality
PA=Available
Philosophy
politics
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
Socrates
softlaunch
virtue

Product details

  • ISBN 9781399804936
  • Weight: 460g
  • Dimensions: 158 x 236mm
  • Publication Date: 29 Sep 2022
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days

Our Delivery Time Frames Explained
2-4 Working Days: Available in-stock

10-20 Working Days
: On Backorder

Will Deliver When Available
: On Pre-Order or Reprinting

We ship your order once all items have arrived at our warehouse and are processed. Need those 2-4 day shipping items sooner? Just place a separate order for them!

What Socrates's greatest failure says about a 2,000-year-old question: is it possible to teach ourselves and others to become better people?

Can we make ourselves into better human beings? Can we help others do the same? And can we get the leaders of our society to care that humanity prospers, not just economically, but also spiritually? These questions have been asked for over two millennia and attempting to answer them is crucial if we want to live a better life and build a more just society.

How to Be Good uses the story of Socrates and Alcibiades and examples from Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Machiavelli, alongside modern interpretations to explore what philosophy can teach us about the quest for virtue today. Whether we are statesmen or ordinary individuals Pigliucci argues that with a little work day by day we all have the power to pursue the timely and timeless art of living well.

Massimo Pigliucci is the K. D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He holds PhDs in evolutionary biology and philosophy. The author or editor of sixteen books, including How to Be a Stoic, he has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Philosophy Now, and the Philosophers' Magazine, among others. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.