Table of Contents

Introduction: A Dialectical Inquiry; The Cultural Context; Philosophy as Self-Knowledge; Deciding Who I Am; What Do I Mean by “god”; Deciding Whether To Believe; God Or Evil; An Effective Humanism

About the Author

Michael Novak is George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He has twice been the US ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission and is a member of the National Endowment for Democracy board. He is the author of over two dozen books and numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in First Things, The Weekly Standard, and National Review Online. He is the winner of the 1994 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion.