Reason Cannot Establish Values, And

The Importance Of These [college] Years For An American Cannot Be Overestimated. They Are Civilization's Only Chance To Get To Him.

We Witness A Strange Inversion: On The One Hand, The Endeavor To Turn The Social Contract Into A Less Calculating And More Feeling Connection Among Its Members; On The Other Hand, The Endeavor To Turn The Erotic Relationship Into A Contractual One.

The Most Successful Tyranny Is Not The One That Uses Force To Assure Uniformity But The One That Removes The Awareness Of Other Possibilities, That Makes It Seem Inconceivable That Other Ways Are Viable, That Removes The Sense That There Is An Outside.

It Was Not Necessarily The Best Of Times In America When Catholics And Protestants Were Suspicious Of And Hated One Another; But At Least They Were Taking Their Beliefs Seriously, And The More Or Less Satisfactory Accommodations They Worked Out Were Not Simply The Result Of Apathy About The State Of Their Souls.

Life, Liberty, And The Pursuit Of Property Were Just What Aristotle Did Not Talk About. They Are The Conditions Of Happiness; But The Essence Of Happiness, According To Aristotle, Is Virtue. So The Moderns Decided To Deal With The Conditions And To Let Happiness Take Care Of Itself.