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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- What Does Interpretation Mean? -- Theology and Pseudo-Theology -- The Faith of Socrates -- Two Ways of Being "Critical" -- Createdness: Elements of a Fundamental Concept -- Sartre's Proof for the Existence of God -- Sign and Symbol as the Language of Christian Faith -- Knowledge and Freedom -- Freedom and Pornography -- Philosophy and the Common Good -- Contemporary Relevance of the Cardinal Virtues -- What Does Happiness Mean? Fulfilment in Vision -- On Music -- Music and Silence -- Silence -- "Sacred" Language -- Preliminary Thoughts about "Celibacy" -- "Testimony of Faith" -- "Ready-Made Formal Templates"? -- "Post-Resurrection View"? -- "Jesus, our Brother"? -- Bibliographical Notes -- Index.

Intro -- Foreword by James V. Schall, S.J -- Author's Preface to the English Edition -- LEISURE THE BASIS OF CULTURE -- I. Leisure the foundation of Western culture-"We are 'unleisurely' in order to have leisure"-Aristotle-The claims of the world of "total work" -- II. "Intellectual work" and "intellectual worker"-Discursive thought and "intellectual contemplation"-Kant and the Romantics -Ratio and Intellectus: the medieval conception of knowledge-Contemplation "superhuman"-Knowledge as "work": the two aspects of this conception-"Unqualified activity"-Effort and effortlessness-Hard work is what is good-Antisthenes-Thomas Aquinas: "it is not the difficulty which is the decisive point"-Contemplation and play-Willingness to suffer-First comes the "gift"-"Inte -- III. Sloth (acedia) and the incapacity to leisure-Leisure as non-activity-Leisure as a festive attitude-Leisure and rest from work-Leisure above all functions-Leisure as a means of rising above the "really human" -- IV. The influence of the ideal of leisure-"Humanism" an inadequate position? -Excursus on "proletariat"- The philosopher and the common working man-Man "fettered to work"-Lack of property, State compulsion and inner impoverishment as the causes-"Proletarians" not limited to the proletariat -artes liberales and artes serviles- Proudhon on Sunday-"Deproletarianization" and the opening of the realm of leisure -- V. Leisure made inwardly possible through Divine Worship-Feast and worship-Unused time and space-The world of work and the Feast day-Leisure divorced from worship becomes idleness-The significance of Divine worship -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL ACT.

Intro -- Foreword -- Human Authenticity -- 1 The Ultimate -- 2 A Dead Word? -- 3 "Ought To" -- 4 Seven Statements -- 5 Three Streams of Life -- 6 "This Is How It Is" -- 7 Sharing in Knowledge -- 8 Communication of Reality -- 9 To Hope-But on What Grounds? -- 10 The Obscurity of Hope and Despair -- 11 Creative Affirmation -- 12 Joy Is a By-Product -- 13 Sex and Despair -- 14 Fulfillment Means Change -- 15 The Art of Making the Right Decisions -- 16 Being-Truth-Good -- 17 "Doing the Truth" -- 18 The Prudence of Love -- 19 "We Have a Holy Sovereign" -- 20 "Restitution" -- 21 The "Common Good" and What It Means -- 22 The Power of Evil -- 23 Courage Does Not Exclude Fear -- 24 The Seal of Order -- 25 Asceticism and Heresy -- 26 The "Order of Reason" -- 27 Only the Pure of Heart Can Perceive Beauty -- 28 The Fruit of Purity -- 29 Temperance Creates Beauty -- 30 "Concupiscence of the Eyes" -- The Two Sides of the Coin That Is Truth -- 31 Reality and the Knowing Mind -- 32 Incomprehensible Comprehensibility -- 33 The "Truth of All Things" -- 34 Things Can Be Known Because They Are Created -- 35 Things Are Unfathomable Because They Are Created -- 36 Negative Philosophy, Negative Theology -- 37 "Experience" -- The Freedom of Philosophy and Its Adversaries -- 38 "I Don't Know What Freedom Means" -- 39 Not at Your Service -- 40 Useless and Indispensable -- 41 "Liberal Arts" -- 42 The Self-Destruction of Philosophy -- 43 To Use and to Enjoy -- 44 The Purpose of Politics -- 45 The Defense of Freedom -- 46 The "Intellectual" and the Church -- Free Space in the World of Work -- 47 Leisure and Its Threefold Opposition -- 48 Earthly Contemplation -- 49 What Is a Feast? -- Truths-Known and Believed -- 50 Knowing and Believing -- 51 "Theology" without Faith -- 52 Philosophy out of a Christian Existence -- 53 The Possible Future of Philosophy.