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For the Good of the World

Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible?

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For the Good of the World

By: A. C. Grayling
Narrated by: Mike Cooper
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A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face?

Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries, and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction?

To answer these questions, A. C. Grayling considers the three most pressing challenges facing the world: climate change, technology, and justice, acknowledging that there is no worldwide set of values that can be invoked to underwrite agreements about what to do and not do in the interests of humanity and the planet in all these respects. As extreme weather events increase in frequency, advances in AI and military technology accelerate, and inequities deepen everywhere, the question of how to confront the world’s various problems becomes even more urgent.

If there is to be a chance of finding ways to generate universal agreement, the underlying question of values (together with the problem of relativism) has to be addressed. One part of the answer may lie in toleration and convivencia—the basis of coexistence among Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Iberian peninsula between the ninth and 15th centuries CE.

©2022 A. C. Grayling (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing
Ethics & Morality Philosophy Political Science Politics & Government Society Technology Solar System

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