Ultimate Questions - Hardcover

"In this fluently written and beautifully clear book, Bryan Magee offers a series of reflections on the human condition, based on a lifetime's study of the central questions of philosophy. Ultimate Questions is a personal testament, one that reflects a yearning for answers coupled with an honest, and indeed humble, admission that such answers cannot be reached."--John Cottingham, author of Philosophy of Religion: Towards a More Humane Approach

"Magee's writing always makes very easy reading."---Anthony Kenny, Standpoint

"[Magee] writes with relaxed fluency."---Rowan Williams, New Statesman

"[Bryan Magee] writes with grace and offers a thoughtful summation of human experience."--Library Journal

"Living and dying in a world we accept we do not understand may not sound easy, but if Magee is any guide, the reward of doing so is endless and profound wonder."---Julian Baggini, Independent

"Magee is refreshingly comfortable acknowledging the uncanniness of human experience, including the aesthetic as well as the ethical. . . . His case for acknowledging the extent of what we do not know is a useful corrective to 'jolly hockey sticks' humanism as well as religious dogma."---Dolan Cummings, Spiked

"[Ultimate Questions] is ... a deeply personal and elegant summary of [Magee's] own individual journey to and through profound philosophical questions."--Choice

"Ultimate Questions is a brief book with powerful and meaningful ideas. . . . I highly praise Professor Magee for giving us a text that is readable, profound, relevant and interesting, and one that reignites the Socratic gadfly in philosophical practitioners and other students of living well."---Robert J. Parmach, Philosophical Practice

"A moving and profound reflection on life."---David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer

"Magee has lost none of his intellectual vigour and enthusiasm for tackling the big questions. . . . A superbly subtle meditation on life and the limits of understanding."---P. D. Smith, The Guardian