Introduction

Robert Klitgaard

PART I | POSING BIG QUESTIONS

1. What If You Could Figure Out Everything? Then What? Annie Dillard

2. Are the Arts and Humanities Your Thing? How about Science? Do They Halt in the Same Way? Wilson Poon and Tom McLeish

3. Why Is Philosophy So Impractical? Roberto Mangabeira Unger

4. We Human Beings Are Vanishingly Small and Impermanent. Life Is Meaningless. Isn''t it? William James

5. What Is a Full Human Life? Robert Klitgaard

PART II | INTRODUCING JESUS

6. What Is Special about Jesus? Adam Gopnik

7. What Does the Crucifixion Signify? Jack Miles

8. What Did Jesus Contribute to Western Philosophy? Leszek Kołakowski

9. How Can One Get from Here to There? Paul Kingsnorth