How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for?

In this summation of a lifetime of thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores with clarity and depth the ideas that each of us must use in answering them for ourselves.

Drawing on the lives, experiences, and works of a fantastically eclectic range of thinkers - taking in not only philosophers such as Confucius, Seneca, and Nietzsche, but also authors from Shakespeare to Ursula LeGuin, and modern thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum and Simon May - Philosophy and Life brings together wisdom from across eras and continents in a tour de force on the philosophy of how to live your life.