This text celebrates the power of ideas: thought can and does change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. This is Grayling's personal and heartfelt guide to the ideas, past, and present, that shape our world. It covers religion, philosophy, scientific theory, and political movements.

Due to the fact that there are different ideas, besides interests and opinions in each group, politics is the art of compromise, in order to control who has to make decisions and follow up on them, ensuring continuity and authority. All this applies to both a democracy and a dict...

Many believe that "politics" is "the art of the possible". I think so too. Here, however, the English author says that it is "the art of the near-impossible" as it is the process by which groups, communities, nations, citizens of a state try to decide what to do, how things they ...

The author writes that ideas are the "gears" that drive that "juggernaut" that is history. Understanding them means being able to get on it, rather than being crushed by it, under its wheels. A book that celebrates the power of ideas that can change the world. Ideas that change, evolve, decay, an...

Given the trend that politics has taken in this precise historical moment, I wanted to study something on the meaning that this word has had over time. Nothing special, to be honest. I have not attended seminars that are held around, participated in conventions of foundations, enrolled in party s...

After Plato, Confucius, Aristotle, he speaks succinctly of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau. They could not miss John Stuart Mill and Carlo Marx. As we approach the end of the book, we realize that the starting word, indeed the idea from which the aut...