[Salon] A.C. Grayling: Technology, Climate, Justice and Rights: Can We Get The Whole World To Agree On Any Of Them?

Technology, Climate, Justice and Rights: Can We Get The Whole World To Agree On Any Of Them?

A salon with
philosopher A.C. Grayling

 IDEAS   / Fri 21 April / 6:30 - 8:30 PM

It’s easy to feel a sense of powerlessness when every morning we’re greeted with bleak news of climate catastrophe, grave social injustice, political inaction and senseless violence. So how can we muster the courage to forge a new path and turn things around? Is it still possible to make the world a better place? A.C. Grayling shares his ideas on how to make a better world.  

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ABOUT

Anthony Grayling CBE, MA, DPhil (Oxon) FRSL, FRSA is Master of the New College of the Humanities, a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford and one of the UK's most prolific philosophers and authors. Grayling believes that philosophy should be integrated with society, taking on an active and useful role. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and other subjects; among his most recent are The Good Book, Ideas That Matter, Liberty in the Age of Terror. He is a frequent broadcaster on BBC Radios 4, 3 and the World Service. In addition, he sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals. Grayling was a Fellow of the World Economic Forum for several years. Until 2011 he was Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London.