BOOKS: The Road from Aristotle to Auschwitz ; A Pair of British Philosophers Ask the Biggest Conceivable Questions, Reports Pat Kane. but Only One Has the Boldness to Break with a Comforting Tradition

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Liquid Love: on the frailty of human bonds

Zygmunt Bauman

Polity Press

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What is Good? The search for the best way to live

A C Grayling

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SO WHAT is love? What is goodness? Does anyone have any bigger questions? From these two titles, no one could accuse the British intelligentsia of aiming low. Yet the comparison between these two writers - their mental styles, their biographical provenance, their emotional …