Seven concepts of creation - Life after Etna: Empedocles in prose and poetry - Virtue and the good in Plato and Aristotle - Aristotle's criteria for happiness - Practical truth in Aristotle - Aristotle's Categories in the Latin fathers - Essence and existence: Aquinas and Islamic philosophy - Aquinas on the beginning of individual human life - Thomas and Thomism - Aquinas in America - "Philosophy states only what everyone admits" - Cognitive scientism - The Wittgenstein editions - Knowledge, belief, and faith - The unity of knowledge and the diversity of belief.