1. Frameworks or Tools? On the Status of Concepts in Humanistic Inquiry
2. Forgetting by Remembering: Historicism and the Limits of Modern Knowledge
3. “A large mental field”: Intellectual Traditions and Responsible Knowledge after Newman
PART II. RATIONAL APPETITE: AN EMERGENT CONCEPTUAL TRADITION
4. Beginnings: Desire, Judgment, and Action in Aristotle and the Stoics
5. Consolidation: St. Augustine on Choice, Sin, and the Divided Will
6. Rational Appetite and Good Sense: Will and Intellect in Aquinas
7. Rational Claims, Irrational Consequences: Ockham Disaggregates Will and Reason
PART III. PROGRESSIVE AMNESIA: WILL AND THE CRISIS OF REASON
8. Impoverished Modernity: Will, Action, and Person in Hobbes’s Leviathan
9. The Path toward Non-Cognitivism: Locke’s Desire and Shaftesbury’s Sentiment
10. From Naturalism to Reductionism: Mandeville’s Passion and Hutcheson’s Moral Sense
11. Mindless Desires and Contentless Minds: Hume’s Enigma of Reason
12. Virtue without Agency: Sentiment, Behavior, and Habituation in A. Smith
13. After Sentimentalism: Liberalism and the Discontents of Modern Autonomy
PART IV. RETRIEVING THE HUMAN: COLERIDGE ON WILL, PERSON, AND CONSCIENCE
14. Good or Commodity? Modern Knowledge and the Loss of Eudaimonia
15. The Persistence of Gnosis: Freedom and “Error” in Philosophical Modernity
16. Beyond Voluntarism and Deontology: Coleridge’s Notion of the Responsible Will
17. Existence before Substance: The Idea of “Person” in Humanistic Inquiry
18. Existence as Reality and Act: Person, Relationality, and Incommunicability
19. “Consciousness has the appearance of another”: On Relationality as Love
20. “Faith is fidelity . . . to the conscience”: Coleridge’s Ontology