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ALMOST HERE…

April 12, 2014 by Kenan Malik

Yes, it’s almost here! My new book, The Quest for a Moral Compass will be published by Atlantic on 1 May. Here, as an introduction, is the opening section of the book. The Quest for a Moral Compass ‘Sing, goddess, of the anger of Achilleus, son of Peleus, the accursed anger which brought uncounted anguish on the Achaians and hurled down to Hades many mighty souls of heroes, making their bodies the prey to dogs and the birds’ feasting; and […]

Categories: History of moral thought, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: ethics, fate, free will, greek philosophy, history of moral thought, homer, human agency, kenan malik's books

A BOOK IN PROGRESS [PART 3]: ON STOICISM, FREE WILL & FATE

April 5, 2011 by Kenan Malik

My book on the history of moral thought, due to be published next year by Atlantic, is beginning to take shape (I should hopefully have finished writing it by late summer / early autumn). Every month I am posting small sections from the book. This excerpt is from the conclusion of Chapter 3, which begins in Aristotle’s moral thought and ends in Stoicism. THE PHILOSOPHER ZENO WAS ONCE FLOGGING A SLAVE WHO HAD STOLEN SOME goods. ‘But I was fated to […]

Categories: History of moral thought • Tags: aristotle, cosmopolitanism, ethics, eudaimonia, fate, free will, greek philosophy, history of moral thought, kenan malik's books, socrates, stoicism, universalism, virtue ethics

A BOOK IN PROGRESS

January 25, 2011 by Kenan Malik

When not idling my time away on Twitter or Pandaemonium, I am writing a book: a history of moral thought, to be published by Atlantic next year. (I am pretty sure of the title, but until it is fixed, it will just remain ‘the book’). The aim of the book is to explore the development of moral thought within its social and historical context and to address the question: Why is it that we live in an age in which we […]

Categories: History of moral thought, Philosophy & Ethics • Tags: ethics, fate, free will, greek philosophy, history of moral thought, homer, kenan malik's books