A. C. Grayling is Master of the New College of the Humanities, UK. He has written and edited numerous works of philosophy and is the author of biographies of Descartes and William Hazlitt. He believes that philosophy should take an active, useful role in society. He has been a regular contributor to The Times, Financial Times, Observer, Independent on Sunday, Economist, Literary Review, New Statesman and Prospect, and is a frequent and popular contributor to radio and television programmes, including Newsnight, Today, In Our Time, Start the Week and CNN news. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum at Davos, and advises on many committees ranging from Drug Testing at Work to human rights groups. (source)
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Philosophy, History, Life, Humanistic ethics, Humanism, Liberty, Philosophie, Conduct of life, Ethics, Knowledge, theory of, Religion, Theory of Knowledge, Meaning (Philosophy), Meaning (philosophy), Biography, Civil rights movements, Controversial literature, Democracy, Intellectual life, Moral and ethical aspects, Religious Humanism, Self-actualization (Psychology), Self-actualization (psychology), Social change, Social movementsPeople
George Berkeley (1685-1753), Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), René Descartes (1596-1650), William Hazlitt (1778-1830)ID Numbers
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- Anthony Clifford Grayling, Anthony C. Grayling
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