The moral philosopher, Pall Skulasson, is one of Europe's leading thinkers, and his musings upon morality, science and technology, politics and the state, cross far beyond the concerns of academic philosophers to provide interesting and stimulating reading for everyone. The famous French philosopher Paul Ricoeur writes "I am struck by the level of discourse, and thus of communication, that the author establishes with his reader. Simply stated, he breaks away from the ubiquitous professionalisation of academic philosophy".