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CONTENTS

Introduction

1. Finding Meaning in Modern Times: An Overview

I · LOVE, FAMILY, AND FRIENDSHIP: SOME REFLECTIONS ON MODERN CULTURE

2. The End of Courtship

3. The Higher Sex Education: Help from an Old Story (with Amy Kass)

4. Virtually Intimate: Is the Internet Good for Love and Friendship?

5. What’s Your Name? (with Amy Kass)

II · HUMAN EXCELLENCE AND HUMAN DIGNITY: REAL AND DISTORTED

6. Ageless Bodies, Happy Souls: Biotechnology and the Pursuit of Happiness

7. Human Dignity: What It Is and Why It Matters

8. For the Love of the Game: The Dignity of Sport (with Eric Cohen)

9. A Dignified Death and Its Enemies: Why Doctors Must Not Kill

10. A More Perfect Human: The Promise and Peril of Modern Science

III · IN SEARCH OF WISDOM: LEARNING, TEACHING, AND TRUTH

11. The Aims of Liberal Education: On Seeking Truth

12. Looking for an Honest Man: The Case for the Humanities

13. Science, Religion, and the Human Future

IV · THE ASPIRATIONS OF HUMANKIND: ATHENS, JERUSALEM, GETTYSBURG

14. Human Flourishing and Human Excellence: The Truth(s) of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

15. The Ten Commandments

16. The Gettysburg Address: Abraham Lincoln’s Refounding of the Nation

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index