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.