Abstract

A parable -- Preface: Learning to live with solertia -- Thinking and living humanly well -- Faith and reason--who needs them? -- World views--what they are and why they matter -- Metaphysics: a systematic account of the real -- Anthropology: an account of the human person -- Ethics: the art and science of evaluating human behavior in terms of ought and ought not -- Epilogue -- Afterword by Robert J. Spitzer, S.J.