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What Matters Most Anthony Morgan

What Matters Most By Anthony Morgan

What Matters Most by Anthony Morgan


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This collection of philosophical conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.

What Matters Most Summary

What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living by Anthony Morgan

The ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus insisted that philosophy should be concerned with nothing less than o (to timiotaton), generally translated as what matters most. This collection of philosophical conversations by many of the world's leading thinkers seeks to honour Plotinus' vision by addressing questions related to the art of living. When thinking about the art of living, we may conjure up ideas of therapy, meditation, peace, happiness, and so on. However, this collection aims to expand the scope of this idea, foregrounding social and political questions, alongside more traditional existential ones. How are we to think about the art of living together, of living with technology, of living under oppression, of living in the end times? These engaging and urgent conversations invite us to think anew about the complexities and challenges involved in living a good life in a world characterized by uncertainty and change.

What Matters Most Reviews

A series of gripping, personal interviews that bring philosophy to bear on matters of urgency: misinformation, racial politics, capitalism, justice, AI, and more. This book lets us eavesdrop on these vital conversations, a source not just of fresh ideas but of moral and political inspiration.

-- Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way

I kept hearing these conversations in my head long after putting What Matters Most down. Unlike so many philosophy books, it never strays from what is morally and intellectually urgent. Ancient questions given modern relevance - this book is a field guide for how to think in the twenty-first century.

-- Andy West, author of The Life Inside: A Memoir of Prison, Family and Philosophy

Dialogue is the lifeblood of philosophy, and What Matters Most captures the fun and immediacy of the subject in a masterful collection of thoughtful, urgent conversations on some of the most pressing issues of the moment. An invaluable window onto philosophy and its applications, this is a book that, through its many voices, models clearer and more careful ways of thinking.

-- Arianne Shahvisi, author of Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice

About Anthony Morgan

Anthony Morgan is Editor of The Philosopher, the UK's longest-running public philosophy journal, as well as host of the philosophy events series, On Philosophy. As one of the pioneers of the UK's public philosophy scene, he is actively involved in promoting the value of philosophy beyond academia.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Anthony Morgan

Part I: Living together

1. What is we? - Dan Zahavi with Luna Dolezal

2. Polarization and talking across difference - Elizabeth Anderson with Alexis Papazoglou

3. Misinformation and the right to know - Lani Watson with Aidan McGlynn

4. A decolonial ecology - Malcom Ferdinand with Romy Oppermann

5. Listening to animals - Eva Meijer with Adam Ferner and Darren Chetty

6. Relationality and political responsibility - Lewis Gordon with Olufemi O. Taiwo

Part II: Living with technology

7. Misunderstanding the internet - Justin E. H. Smith with Alexis Papazoglou

8. Artificial bodies and the promise of abstraction - Peter Wolfendale with Anthony Morgan

9. Will artificial intelligence transform ethics? - Shannon Vallor with John Zerilli

10. The algorithmic is the political - Annette Zimmermann with Matthew Lord

11. Intelligence and the future of AI - Stephen Cave with Sage Cammers-Goodwin

12. We and the robots - John Danaher with Anthony Morgan

Part III: Living under oppression

13. The politics of gender and identity - Finn Mackay with Jana Bacevic

14. Submission and emancipation - Manon Garcia with Kate Kirkpatrick

15. Madness, identity, and recognition - Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed with Helen Spandler

16. Reimagining Black men - Tommy Curry with David Livingston Smith

17. Responsibility and structural injustice - Maeve McKeown with Alasia Nuti

18. Disobedience and seeing like an activist - Erin R. Pineda with Robin Celikates

Part IV: Living in the end times

19. A world beyond capitalism - Martin Hagglund with Lea Ypi

20. Derrick Bell and racial realism - Timothy Golden with Darren Chetty

21. Spinoza in the Anthropocene - Beth Lord with Chris Meyns

22. Animals, pandemics, and climate change - Jeff Sebo with Lauren Van Patter

23. The task of thinking in the age of dumping - Michael Marder with Sofia Lemos

24. Why misanthropy? - Ian James Kidd with Anthony Morgan

Additional information

GOR013518773
9781788216241
1788216245
What Matters Most: Conversations on the Art of Living by Anthony Morgan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Agenda Publishing
2023-05-18
248
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