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A Personal Note to the Reader | |
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An Ancient Heritage | |
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The Way of Prophets: A Higher Authority | |
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From Seer to Prophet: Moses' Test of Obedience | |
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A Covenanting God: Isaiah's Test of Faith | |
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Struggles of the Believer: Job | |
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A World Self-Explained: Evil in the East | |
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The Way of Philosophers: A Wondrous Instrument Within | |
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Socrates' Discovery of Ignorance | |
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The Life in the Spoken Word | |
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Plato's Other-World of Ideas | |
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Paths to Utopia: Virtues Writ Large | |
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Aristotle: An Outsider in Athens | |
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On Paths of Common Sense | |
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Aristotle's God for a Changeful World | |
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The Christian Way: Experiments in Community | |
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Fellowship of the Faithful: The Church | |
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Islands of Faith: Monasteries | |
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The Way of Disputation: Universities | |
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Varieties of the Protestant Way: Erasmus, Luther, Calvin | |
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Communal Search | |
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Ways of Discovery: In Search of Experience | |
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The Legacy of Homer: Myth and the Heroic Past | |
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Herodotus and the Birth of History | |
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Thucydides Creates a Political Science | |
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From Myth to Literature: Virgil | |
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Thomas More's New Paths to Utopia | |
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Francis Bacon's Vision of Old Idols and New Dominions | |
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From the Soul to the Self: Descartes's Island Within | |
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The Liberal Way | |
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Machiavelli's Reach for a Nation | |
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John Locke Defines the Limits of Knowledge and of Government | |
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Voltaire's Summons to Civilization | |
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Rousseau Seeks Escape | |
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Jefferson's American Quest | |
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Hegel's Turn to "The Divine Idea on Earth" | |
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Paths to the Future | |
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The Momentum of History: Ways of Social Science | |
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A Gospel and a Science of Progress: Condorcet to Comte | |
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Karl Marx's Pursuit of Destiny | |
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From Nations to Cultures: Spengler and Toynbee | |
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A World in Revolution? | |
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Sanctuaries of Doubt | |
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"All History Is Biography": Carlyle and Emerson | |
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Kierkegaard Turns from History to Existence | |
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From Truth to Streams of Consciousness with William James | |
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The Solace and Wonder of Diversity | |
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The Literature of Bewilderment | |
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A World in Process: The Meaning in the Seeking | |
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Acton's "Madonna of the Future" | |
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Malraux's Charms of Anti-Destiny | |
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Rediscovering Time: Bergson's Creative Evolution | |
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Defining the Mystery: Einstein's Search for Unity | |
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Some Reference Notes | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Index | |