Designed to be read as narrative and also to be dipped into for inspiration, encouragement and consolation, The Good Book offers a thoughtful, non-religious alternative to the many people who do not follow one of the world's great religions. Instead, going back to traditions older than Christianity, and far richer and more various, including the non-theistic philosophical and literary schools of the great civilisations of both West and East, from the Greek philosophy of classical antiquity and its contemporaneous Confucian, Mencian and Mohist schools in China, down through classical Rome, the flourishing of Indian and Arab worlds, the European Renaissance and Enlightenment, the worldwide scientific discoveries of the 19th and 20th centuries to the present, Grayling collects, edits, rearranges and organises the collective secular wisdom of the world in one highly readable volume.
Contents:
Genesis
Proverbs
Histories
Songs
Wisdom
Acts
The Lawgiver
Lamentations
Concord
Consolations
Sages
The Good
Parables
- ISBN10 1408817543
- ISBN13 9781408817544
- Publish Date 4 April 2011 (first published 29 March 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format eBook
- Pages 608
- Language English
- URL http://bloomsbury.com/