Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Principle of All Reality
  • 1. Books That Are “Greatâ€?â€?Books That Are “Trueâ€?
  • 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, Modernsâ€?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 Educationâ€?“Missing Many Allusionsâ€?: On Why Not to Study the Bible and the Classics9. 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 Platoâ€?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 Charityâ€?
  • Part VI. Much That Is Fair
  • 16. “Platoâ€?s Charmâ€?: On the “Audienceâ€? of Political Philosophy17. On That by Which Human Things Are Measured
  • 18. On the “Rightâ€? 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 Beautyâ€?
  • Conclusion: What Is “Roman Catholic Political Philosophy?â€?
  • Bibliography
  • Index