Publisher's Synopsis
What makes life valuable, what makes it worth living, why it matters that we humans have the capacity to discern and articulate any meaning at all. The author had a highly successful career as a professor at Haverford College, teaching and writing books about political science. The momentum of his career carried he inexorably to the realization that his need to write about the meaning of political silence had always been energized by his quest for the Meaning of Life. The essence of his wisdom, however, comes from the author himself or, more precisely, from the God in him, speaking to the God in us. When he saw that what politics could achieve was limited by limits in the ethics and compassion of the American people, he focused on the fields of religion and philosophy to try to facilitate ethics and compassion. That led him to an awareness of the God in us, both as reality and potential.
