Jan Kłos, Ph.D. (1958), John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, is Professor of Philosophy at that university. He has published monographs, translations, short stories, and many articles on philosophical issues, including Faith, Freedom & Modernity. Christianity and Liberalism in the Nineteenth Century (Grand Rapids, 2010) and Freedom as an Uncertain Cause in Graham Greene’s Novels. A Philosophical and Literary Analysis (Lublin, 2012).

• PrefaceAcknowledgements1 A Gloss to the Biographies1 The Modern Point of Departure2 The Cultural and Family Contexts—the Ethos3 Newman—the Philosopher4 The Decision5 Edith Stein and Her Story6 Conversion and Its Personal Sense7 Secretum Meum Mihi2 The Grammar of Knowledge in the Concrete1 Notional versus Real Assent2 Notional Assent3 Real Assent4 Imagination and Images versus the Response of the Person5 Realization6 Theoretical Knowledge and Action7 Examples as the Sources of Proper Conduct8 The Power of the Particular9 Assent versus Inference10 Simple Assents versus Complex Assents11 The Lazarus Case12 Certitude—the Goal of Personal Effort13 The Power of Simple Assent as Confronted with Certitude14 The Conditions of Certitude—Indefectibility versus Infallibility15 Religion as a System16 Probability—the Guide of Life17 Formal Inference18 Units before Universals19 Informal Inference20 Personal Knowledge versus Inference21 Faith versus Intuition22 The Illative Sense—Practical Wisdom23 The Sanction, Nature, and Range of the Illative Sense, or the Power of Integration24 Intuition versus Reasoning25 Faith and Reason26 The Explicit versus the Implicit and Being Possessed27 Faith Above, Not against, Reason28 The Infinite Abyss of Existence29 The Real versus Unreal Words30 Real Adherence (Not Notional), Personal Adherence to the Word of God31 The Voice of Conscience32 Habit—the Way of Action3 The Cross as a Source of Knowledge and the Language of the Heart1 Going Inside—Meeting God2 Newman and Stein—Mystics3 Selfhood—the Essence of Originality4 The Thoughts of the Heart5 Interior Perception6 The Implicit and the Logic of the Heart7 True Personality Comes from the Depths8 Primeval Life Accessible Yet Not Comprehensible4 The Interior—the Source of the Truth and Individuality of the Person1 Individuality versus the Transcendental Area2 Communicability versus Non-communicability3 The Human Being4 The Life-Emanating I5 The Personal Imprint of the I6 The Source of the Person’s Dignity7 Others—Empathy8 The Person and Soul LifeConclusionBibliographyIndex of Persons