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is concerned with civility in public discourse, maximal federalism and subsidiarity, a sense of transcendence to overcome the delusions of materialism and individualism, and a relentless defense of universities as the core places where our society learns to breathe and grow in the light of knowledge and understanding.

First, the idea of conversation as the model for civilized life. Second, the need to create and preserve appropriate scale in our communities, for the sake of fostering just such conversation. Third, the profound human need for release from the burden of purposefulness, which is perhaps another way of expressing the enduring need for transcendence, an avenue that Rationalism tends to foreclose to us. And fourth, the irreplaceable mission of liberal learning. To translate: civility in public discourse, maximal federalism and subsidiarity, a sense of transcendence to overcome the delusions of materialism and individualism, and a relentless defense of universities as the core places where our society learns to breathe and grow in the light of knowledge and understanding.

is the enduring need for transcendence, an avenue that rationalism tends to foreclose to us.

Third, the profound human need for release from the burden of purposefulness, which is perhaps another way of expressing the enduring need for transcendence, an avenue that Rationalism tends to foreclose to us.

is the idea of conversation as the model for civilized life.

First, the idea of conversation as the model for civilized life.

is the irreplaceable mission of liberal learning.

And fourth, the irreplaceable mission of liberal learning.

is the need to create and preserve appropriate scale in our communities, for the sake of fostering just such conversation.

Second, the need to create and preserve appropriate scale in our communities, for the sake of fostering just such conversation.

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