Comments on: The Meaning of Life: An interview with Professor A C Grayling – Part 4 http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/ The voice of atheism since 1881 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:36:16 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Woo http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29956 Richard Woo Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:55:18 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29956 Prof Grayling is simply top-rate. I have also read several of his books and found myself agreeing with almost everything he has written, because everything he has said sounds logical and true. To Prof Grayling - I wish I had just 20 percent of your intellectual capability. Prof Grayling is simply top-rate.

I have also read several of his books and found myself agreeing with almost everything he has written, because everything he has said sounds logical and true.

To Prof Grayling – I wish I had just 20 percent of your intellectual capability.

]]> By: rog http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29075 rog Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:16:29 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29075 Right you are Dr.Harwood! Right you are Dr.Harwood!

]]> By: William Harwood http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29073 William Harwood Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:59:41 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29073 Obviously rog is referring to A G Grayling's 2007 book, Against All Gods: Six Polemics... But anyone thinking of ordering the title needs to be warned that there is also a 2010 book by Phillip Johnson, Against All Gods: What's Right and Wrong... that is a brain amputee's attempt to defend the god hoax. Obviously rog is referring to A G Grayling’s 2007 book, Against All Gods: Six Polemics…
But anyone thinking of ordering the title needs to be warned that there is also a 2010 book by Phillip Johnson, Against All Gods: What’s Right and Wrong… that is a brain amputee’s attempt to defend the god hoax.

]]> By: rog http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29066 rog Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:24:57 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29066 Will you be publishing them in the freethinker? I have a copy of 'against all gods' you could give away in a caption competition barry, I'll post it to the winner - up to you :) Will you be publishing them in the freethinker?

I have a copy of ‘against all gods’ you could give away in a caption competition barry, I’ll post it to the winner – up to you :)

]]> By: Broga http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29049 Broga Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:46:44 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29049 A novel I would include is Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Pip, the hero, begins admiring the toffs and thinks his money comes from Miss Havisham. The entire novel is a process of education when he ends realising his money comes not from a toff but from Magwitch the criminal and the honest hard working Joe Gargery he was initially embarrassed by, he came to admire. A brilliant series of interviews. Thanks for making them available. A novel I would include is Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Pip, the hero, begins admiring the toffs and thinks his money comes from Miss Havisham. The entire novel is a process of education when he ends realising his money comes not from a toff but from Magwitch the criminal and the honest hard working Joe Gargery he was initially embarrassed by, he came to admire.

A brilliant series of interviews. Thanks for making them available.

]]> By: Holland http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29038 Holland Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:53:31 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29038 Thank you for this series. Found some of his lectures on Youtube too. Thank you for this series. Found some of his lectures on Youtube too.

]]> By: NeoWolfe http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29024 NeoWolfe Fri, 26 Feb 2010 03:48:27 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29024 I really like the humanitarian ideal side to the question of “the meaning of life”. If you make the world a better place with your efforts, then your existence is meaningful. I would want to be remembered that way. Yet, one must ask himself, who had the biggest impact on human history, Muhatma Ghandi or Genghis Khan? Atheists, and splinters thereof, stand on rooftops and shout “wake up you idiots, you are bringing this hell upon yourselves”, and it seems to make perfect sense, except for one thing. Religion is just one facet of the human condition that must change to avoid our self destruction. Our greed is yet another, but not the only other. We are driven by nature to breed, we imagine it is the source of happiness. We soon find it is the source of misery, yet we go down the rat maze again and again. We are pawns of our hormones, but I have to admire anyone who thinks that they can undo the human condition with an act of kindness, but, there are millions of guns, rapists and fanatic murderers who couldn’t care less who you stitch back together, because they have enough bullets to shoot them again. The real human condition can be observed in Darfur, not in the ghetto of your Western city NeoWolfe. I really like the humanitarian ideal side to the question of “the meaning of life”. If you make the world a better place with your efforts, then your existence is meaningful. I would want to be remembered that way. Yet, one must ask himself, who had the biggest impact on human history, Muhatma Ghandi or Genghis Khan?

Atheists, and splinters thereof, stand on rooftops and shout “wake up you idiots, you are bringing this hell upon yourselves”, and it seems to make perfect sense, except for one thing. Religion is just one facet of the human condition that must change to avoid our self destruction. Our greed is yet another, but not the only other.

We are driven by nature to breed, we imagine it is the source of happiness. We soon find it is the source of misery, yet we go down the rat maze again and again. We are pawns of our hormones, but I have to admire anyone who thinks that they can undo the human condition with an act of kindness, but, there are millions of guns, rapists and fanatic murderers who couldn’t care less who you stitch back together, because they have enough bullets to shoot them again. The real human condition can be observed in Darfur, not in the ghetto of your Western city

NeoWolfe.

]]> By: Angela_K http://freethinker.co.uk/2010/02/25/the-meaning-of-life-an-interview-with-professor-a-c-grayling-%e2%80%93-part-4/comment-page-1/#comment-29015 Angela_K Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:05:35 +0000 http://freethinker.co.uk/?p=11906#comment-29015 If only there were more people like Prof. Grayling in positions of power, the World would be a better place. He must rank among the greatest of modern thinkers. Thank you for publishing this interview. If only there were more people like Prof. Grayling in positions of power, the World would be a better place. He must rank among the greatest of modern thinkers.

Thank you for publishing this interview.

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