The Truthful and the Good

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Being and Mind

   • James G. Hart

   Pages 1-16

3. Being Truthful

   • Steven Galt Crowell

   Pages 17-37

4. The Primacy of Identity

   • Gian-Carlo Rota

   Pages 39-45

5. Picturing Revisited: Picturing the Spiritual

   • John B. Brough

   Pages 47-62

6. Everything is in the Detail: On the Humanness of Rhetorical Judging

   • Lenore Langsdorf

   Pages 63-79

7. The Unconscious Between Representation and Drive: Freud, Husserl, and Schopenhauer

   • Rudolf Bernet

   Pages 81-95

8. The Dialectic of Knowledge and Ignorance in Advaita Vedānta

   • J. N. Mohanty

   Pages 97-105

9. Splendid Necessities

   • Richard Cobb-Stevens

   Pages 107-119

10. Keeping Up Appearances: The Moral Philosophy of Robert Sokolowski

    • John C. McCarthy

    Pages 121-144

11. Agency, Agents, and (Sometimes) Patients

    • John J. Drummond

    Pages 145-157

12. Rule as Sovereignty: The Universal and Homogeneous State

    • Francis Slade

    Pages 159-180

13. The Christian Mystery and the Presence and Absence of God

    • Allen Vigneron

    Pages 181-189

14. The Christian Distinction Celebrated and Expanded

    • David B. Burrell

    Pages 191-206

15. Back Matter

    Pages 207-222

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lbis volume was occasioned by the desire of its contributors to honor Robert Sokolowski on his sixtieth birthday. The desire first took fonn on the streets of an American metropolis when several of us, while attending a philosophy conference, were bemoaning the lack of passion for doing philosophy as we all conceived it. In this expression of our discontent we all had a common exemplar in mind, someone for whom the passion for "the truthful" and "the good" is embodied in every sentence of his rich writings. Felicitously this very thinker was someone whom we an regard as manifesting in his person and life these same properties which his writings exhibit and pursue as luminous ideals. As a result, John Brough, John Drummond, and I came up with the idea that we hold our own conference and do philosophy as we envisage it and at the same time honor its foremost exemplary practitioner whose sixtieth birthday was the following year. Immediately the idea took wings among the handful ofus and the dreariness of that philosophy congress receded. The first task of thinking of possible speakers was easy. The issue of the venue for our symposium, what I like to call the "Sokofest," had to be decided, as well as the details of its realization.

• Edmund Husserl
• Schopenhauer
• Sigmund Freud
• language
• moral philosophy
• morality
• phenomenology
• truth

• Mount Saint Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, USA

  John J. Drummond

• Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

  James G. Hart

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