If the mark of a worthwhile book is onward reading, Mark Vernon’s Wellbeing (see my capsule review) meets the test:
- Vernon describes A Secular Age, Charles Taylor’s history of ideas, as ‘a long book and gathers an extraordinary amount of material, is remarkably even-handed, and sparkles with insights.’
- I’ll also obtain a book I should have read when it came out, Iris Murdoch’s Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals.