Thinking: From Solitude to Dialogue and Contemplation Book

	Preface
	Introduction
1	I Think	1
	The Self-Conception of Modern Philosophy	1
	The Practice of Modern Philosophy	6
	The Philosophical Republic	18
	From "I Think" to "We Speak"	22
2	Speaking	25
	Speaking To/Speaking About	25
	You Speak to Me	29
	Responding	31
	Teacher and Pupil	37
	Listening Is Learning	41
	Dialogue	45
	From Dialogue to Conversation	50
	Hermeneutics and/or Conversation?	54
3	Philosophy as Conversation	56
	Sharing and Originality	56
	Issues	58
	The Thinker	60
	Individual Thinkers and the Good	67
	The Community of Difference	69
	You and I Are Speaking	74
	Speaking and Writing	76
	From Listening to Speaking in Philosophy	78
	Dialogue	87
	Singularization of the Truth	90
	You	93
	The Audience	97
	Proximity and Distance	103
	You and I	105
	Dear Reader	109
	System and Dialogue	112
	Conversation and Universality	115
	Philosophy and Wisdom	118
	Truth and Conversation	122
	Participation	124
	Contemplation or Colloquium	125
4	From Thinking to Prayer	127
	Philosophy and Theology	127
	The Republic of Philosophy	135
	Being Christian and Philosopher	136
	Free Thinking as a Right	137
	Faith versus Survey	140
	Faith and Adoration	142
	Trust-Gratitude-Hope	145
	Love	148
	Faithful Life	151
	Communion	153
	Answering the Word	154
	Prayer and Theology	156
	The Universe (Cosmotheology)	157
	Distance and Intimacy	158
	Faith and Dialogue	161
	Notes	165