Preface
Acknowledgements
CHAPTER 1 Wonder Why Philosophy Is at the Crossroads of the Arts and Sciences
CHAPTER 2 Canonical Philosophers in Classical and Modernist Eras
INTERLUDE
Part 1 Philosophic-Poetic Dialectic
Part 2 Self-Assessment Survey
CHAPTER 3 Postmodernist and Contemporary Philosophies
Part 1 Deconstruction, Construction, and Creative Productivity
Part 2 Philosophy’s Progress in Technological Times
CHAPTER 4 Harmony and Conflict in the Exchange of Opposites
Part 1 Peace and War
Part 2 Justice and Injustice; Happiness and Suffering
CHAPTER 5 Classical Philosophy of Plato on Love and Wisdom
Part 1 Interrelational Types of Love
Part 2 Circles of Connectivity
CHAPTER 6 Classical and Liberalist Philosophies of the Good Life
Part 1 The Good Life: A Good Happiness or Just Happiness
Part 2 Modernist B. Options for the Good Life
Part 3 More Tuning and Tensions for Points A. and B
CHAPTER 7 Truth, Freedom, and Hope
Part 1 Truth
Part 2 Freedom
Part 3 Hope
EPILOGUE