About the Book: Good and Evil: 12 Philosophers on How to Live
Introduced by Rory Stewart
What makes a person good? What does it mean to be evil? And what does it tell
us about being human?
Philosophers have been grappling with these questions for thousands of years,
and they remain as vital as ever in our present moment. Here, in a selection of
essays each written by a different world expert, we explore the ideas of twelve
strikingly different philosophers. From Hannah Arendts banality of evil to
Nietzsches embrace of suffering, from John Stuart Mills ethics of happiness to
the ruthless realism