Contents
Introduction
Part I. The Principle of All Reality
1. Books That Are “Great”—Books That Are “True”
2. On Rereading the Apology of Socrates
3. The Purpose of Creation
Part II. On Something or Other Really Existing
4. On the Things That Depend on Philosophy
5. On the Conquest of Human Nature: Ancients, Moderns—Medievals, Futures
6. Why Political Philosophy Is Not a Natural Science
Part III. Sufficient Understanding to See the Truth
7. The Rational Animal
8. Liberal Education—“Missing Many Allusions”: On Why Not to Study the Bible and the Classics
9. On Praise and Celebration
Part IV. On Finding a Natural Explanation for Mysteries
10. Thomism and Atheism
11. The Definitive Kingdom
12. A Roman Catholic Reading of Plato’s Gorgias
Part V. At the Calling of All Nations
13. Ratzinger on the Modern Mind
14. From Cambridge to Regensburg: On Intellectual Courage
15. “Intellectual Charity”
Part VI. Much That Is Fair
16. “Plato’s Charm”: On the “Audience” of Political Philosophy
17. On That by Which Human Things Are Measured
18. On the “Right” to Be Born
Part VII. On Following the Pull of the Divine Nous
19. On Political Philosophy and the Understanding of Things: Reflections on Fifty Years of Writing
20. Revelation and Political Philosophy: On Locating the Best City
21. “A Plan of Surpassing Beauty”
Conclusion: What Is “Roman Catholic Political Philosophy?”
Bibliography
Index