Preface 1. Religion The Dao and Other Religious Ultimates that Cannot Be Spoken A God of All Creation and of All Peoples Transcendence and Immanence in Religion of Nature The Paradox of Existential Certitude 2. Science The Claim to Scientific Objectivity Assumptions Lying Behind Scientific Reasoning The Need for Dialogue between Science and Other Fields of Thought Science and the Future 3. Morality Truth and Goodness Aristotle and Mill Hobbes and Hume Kant and Rawls Obligations to Nature and All the Creatures of Nature 4. Economics and Ecology Earth as Warehouse of Resources for Human Use Free Markets Automatically and Maximally Benefit Everyone Healthy Economic Systems Always Exhibit Steady Growth Globalization is Beneficial to Everyone Government Deficits are Bad and Should Always be Avoided to the Greatest Possible Extent Capitalism is Always Good and Any Tendency to Socialism is Bad Wheeling and Dealing Partiality of Truths as Excuses for Inaction 5. Philosophy Facts and Values Continuity and Novelty Rationalism and Empiricism Mind-Body Dualism and Reductionism Good and Evil 6. Humanity Stunted and Soaring Trees Signs of Approaching Disaster Signs of Hope 7. Perspectives Perspectival Realism The Necessary Perspectivity of a God's-Eye View of the World Epistemic Norms Concluding Comments Notes Works Cited Index.