Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
Part I: Liberal Education and Experience
Chapter 1 — Freedom and Responsibility 3
Chapter 2 — The Two Freedoms of Speech in Plato 11
Chapter 3 — Speech Codes and the Life of Learning 18
Chapter 4 — Liberal Education and Life 21
Chapter 5 — First Things First: History and the Liberal Arts 25
Chapter 6 — Philosophy in the Comics 32
Part II: Experience and Books
Chapter 7 — The One Book Course: An Internship in the
Ivory Tower 43
Chapter 8 — Why I Read Such Good Books: Aeschylus,
Sophocles, the Moral Majority, and Secular Humanism 64
Chapter 9 — Plato and Nietzsche on Death: An Introduction
to the Phaedo 70
Chapter 10 — The Empire of Poetry: On Shakespeare's Titus
Andronicus 88
Chapter 11 — Agreeing to Agree: On Beginning Rousseau's
Social Contract 103
Chapter 12 — Unraveling Ravelstein: Saul Bellow's Comic
Tragedy 113
Part III: Books and Teaching
Chapter 13 — The Philosophy of Leo Strauss: An Introduction 131
Chapter 14 — On Opening The Closing of the American Mind 156
Chapter 15 — Richard Kennington: The True and the Good 162
Chapter 16 — Seth Benardete: The Life of Wonder 168
Chapter 17 — A life of Learning 174
Index 187
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