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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Catholicism and Philosophy -- Philosophy: The Handmaid to Theology -- Three Uses of Philosophy in Theology -- Characteristics of a Catholic Philosophy -- Outline of the Book -- Concluding Apologetic Postscript -- Further Reading -- Chapter 1: Wisdom and Faith: The Relation between Reason and Revelation -- The Problem -- What Is Philosophy? -- The Necessary Uselessness of Philosophy -- First Principles -- Four Implications of First Principles -- Philosophy and Faith -- What Is Faith? -- Philosophy Overcomes the Reductionism of Scientism and Fideism -- Further Reading -- Part I: What Is -- Chapter 2: The Origins of the Perennial Philosophy -- The Birth of Philosophy -- The Pre-Socratics (ca. 600 BC to ca. 400 BC) -- The Socratic Revolution -- Plato: The Discovery of Transcendent Truth -- Aristotle: The Master of Those Who Know -- Later Philosophical Developments -- The Rejection of the Perennial Philosophy -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: The One and the Many: The Search for Being in Metaphysics -- The Problem: Knowing Reality behind Appearance -- Reductive Extremes -- The Act of Existence -- The Transcendental Properties of Being -- The Divisions of Being -- The Analogy of Being -- The Ladder of Being -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4: What Is Truth? Epistemology and the Extent of Knowledge -- The Problem: What Can Be Known? -- The Rejection of Knowledge: Relativism and Skepticism -- Framing the Problem: Plato's Critique of Knowing as Looking -- Reductive Extremes -- Thomistic Realism: Necessity in the Contingent -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: What Is Man That Thou Art Mindful of Him? Humans as Persons -- The Problem: Man, between the Beasts and the Angels -- The Platonic Foundations -- Reductive Extremes -- Hylomorphism and the Unity of Man -- Significant Implications of Human Nature -- Personalism.