Good and Evil by Andrew Irwin

Andrew Irwin's "Good and Evil: 12 Philosophers on How to Live", which starts with an introduction by Rory Stewart, is a fantastic collection.

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What the book does is take those big, timeless questions about how we should behave and break them down into totally manageable essays. Leading experts have written on thinkers ranging from the powerful ideas of Machiavelli all the way to Arendt. The whole book is really trying to get at the core of morality: why humans are so prone to messing things up, and how we can actively choose to be better people. This feels especially important right now, given all the major crises we're facing that demand clear ethical thinking. Irwin, who is the philosophy editor at the TLS, has put together a huge spectrum of ideas, moving from Mill's focus on happiness to Nietzsche's radical idea of lovi