RaveThe Times (UK)Schur writes sparkling prose ... He writes so well that this book might pull off the unprecedented feat of getting otherwise sane and healthy teenagers to read Immanuel Kant. Whether that is a good idea, for the teenagers or anyone else, is another question ... That brings me to the one trick that I thought Schur missed in this enormously enjoyable, useful and readable book. Ethical thought, systematic or otherwise, may be not much younger than human civilisation, but what is older than civilisation, and will outlast it if anything does, is our drive to control and dominate others. It can manifest itself as a nanny state or a police state, but wouldn’t it be cheaper to implant the nanny or policeman inside people’s heads? ... Schur writes as though there are ethical truths that we keep failing (but should still keep trying) to find. Yet the real mistake might be thinking that there are any answers.
