The philosophy of life, and philosophy of language, in a course of lectures

A sequence of lectures offers a systematic meditation on human life, exploring the soul’s cognitive and affective functions, common moral disorders such as pride, sensuality, and avarice, and the soul’s relations to nature and to God. It considers knowledge and revelation, the conflict of truth and error, the tension between faith and science, and the implications of these ideas for art, politics, jurisprudence, social order, and the ideal constitution of the state, ending in reflections on moral restoration. A companion series examines the philosophy of language, treating symbolic expression, the relation of words to thought, and language’s formative role in knowledge and aesthetic understanding.