Tradition as Challenge: Essays and Speeches

“Tradition in the changing world” (1960) “What is meant by the ‘Christian West’?” (1956) “What is, in truth, worth preserving” (1959) “Death and Immortality” (1959) “Immortality – a non-Christian idea?” (1959) “Doing and Signifying (1960) “Consecration of the World” (1958) “Life of the Spirit” (1955) “The Theory of Virtues as Statement about Man” (1962) “Hope – of What? (1957) “The Hidden Nature of Hope and Despair” (1955) “The Seed Requires Soil” (1954) “Religion and Freedom” (1960) “Leisure and Human existence” (1959) “The Necessary But Also Impossible Business of Teaching” (1958) * “On Plato’s Concept of Philosophy” (1955) “The equitable interpretation” (1955) “Platonic Figures”Callicles: the man with no rapport to truth (1954)The learners (1954) “Conversation as the place of truth” (1955) “On Plainess of Language in Philosophy” (1954) “Boethius Poems, translated by Konrad Weiß” (1956)* “The Good Publisher”. Birthday greeting to Jakob Hegner (1952) “Late apology to Rudolf Alexander Schröder” (1953)“Support and advancement through a single word”.

Romano Guardini’s 70th birthday (1955) * “Where do we stand today?” (1960) * Notes and Index