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Hardcover: 240 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (9 Oct 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0415367883
ISBN-13: 978-0415367882
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.5 x 3 cm
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'Not only a superbly lively account of being educated in the first half of the twentieth century, but a portrait of one of the most utterly sensible, accessible and humane philosophers of our age.' - Rowan Williams (Archbishop), Times Literary Supplement

'Her memoir is a warm and reassuring account of the value of civilised life and of the confidence it can provide.' - The Scotsman

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'A warm and humorous memoir by one of the UKs leading moral philosophers. Many young students sense well enough that in the present darkness, articulate and well-informed understanding of their scientific civilization, its values and politics is necessary. They need their Midgleys.' Simon Blackburn, The New Scientist

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