Seeking the Truth of Things: Confessions of a (Catholic) Philosopher - Tapa blanda

With humor, wit, penetrating self-revelation, Al Gini exposes the profound concerns that makes us human: the quest for meaning in our personal and professional lives, the desire for knowledge, the struggles between reason and faith not by ruminations on theoretical debates, but in the context of an authentic life. --L. Padgett, Professor of Philosophy and director of the Ethics and Social Justice Center, Bellarmine University

In this humorous but incisive introduction to the Socratic life, Al Gini makes bold claims that may yet establish him as the country's leading folk philosopher. --Daniel Born, author of The Birth of Liberal Guilt in the English Novel and editor of The Common Review

In this engaging personal narrative, Gini takes us through the life events and ideas that have shaped him as a 'public philosopher' He reveals his passion for literature, and takes us through the sources of philosophical and religious inspiration that have made him one of the foremost catholic philosophers (with a lower case 'c'in our day. --Ronald M. Green, Professor of Ethics and Human Values, and Mary Jean Green, Professor and French and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College

Al Gini, professor of business ethics at Loyola University in Chicago and a popular commentator on Chicago Public Radio, has spent forty years teaching his students to be "respectfully disrespectful" of the ideas of others because ideas that are not challenged by rational thought and introspection tend to be held as, in the words of John Stuart Mill, "dead dogma and not living truth."

In Seeking the Truth of Things, he tries to do what he does in the classroom: serve as a translatordefine, describe, and take the topic apart, raise issues, ask questions, offer some alternatives, and invite readers to decide for themselves, to provoke thought while being a catalyst for moral reasoning. He writes on individual topics, issues, and questions, such as meaning, sin, humor, choice, moral courage, work, leisure, even the importance of travel.