The Truthful and the Good

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.

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Preface. Being and Mind; J.G. Hart. Being Truthful; S.G. Crowell. The Primacy of Identity; G.-C. Rota. Picturing Revisited: Picturing the Spiritual; J.B. Brough. Everything Is In The Detail: On the Humanness of Rhetorical Judging; L. Langsdorf. The Unconscious Between Representation and Drive: Freud, Husserl, and Schopenhauer; R. Bernet. The Dialectic of Knowledge and Ignorance in Advaita Vedanta; J.N. Mohanty. Splendid Necessities; R. Cobb-Stevens. Keeping Up Appearances: The Moral Philosophy of Robert Sokolowski; J.C. McCarthy. Agency, Agents, and (Sometimes) Patients; J.J. Drummond. Rule as Sovereignty: The Universal and Homogeneous State; F. Slade. The Christian Mystery and the Presence and Absence of God; A. Vigneron. The Christian Distinction Celebrated and Expanded; D.B. Burrell. The Writings of Robert Sokolowski. Index.