Preface 13(10) Acknowledgments 23(4) Introduction 27(10) Learning to Care 37(17) What Do You Care About---and Why? 39(2) Understanding the World and My Place in It 41(2) Camus, a Greek Cafe and Critical Consciousness 43(2) The Forming of a Question 45(3) Lessons on Learning 48(1) Patterns of Intentionality 49(3) Ancient Wisdom for Modern Students 52(2) The Problem and Its Parameters 54(22) Why Beavis and Butthead Is Not a Good Answer 55(1) The Question of Telos and Praxis 56(2) On Happy Endings 58(3) Weeping for Students 61(3) The Critiques of MacIntyre and Bernstein 64(3) Raising the Ante: An Alternative Reading 67(5) Theorizing for the Sake of Theorizing 72(4) Education for What Purpose? Competence to What End? 76(24) Dostoyevsky's Raskolnikov 77(1) Tolstoy's Nekhlyudov 78(2) Solzhenitsyn's Volodin 80(3) Education: A Passport to Privilege? 83(4) The Question of Moral Meaning 87(3) The Formation of Moral Meaning in the Modern University 90(4) What Is the Point of Life---and of Education? 94(3) Making Sense of Life over the Course of Life 97(3) Making Sense of It All 100(22) And Yet, He Cried 101(1) Bearing the Bruises of Modern Consciousness 102(2) The First Lens: Thomas Oden and the History of Ideas 104(4) The Second Lens: Stanley Hauerwas and the Ethic of Virtue 108(7) The Third Lens: Peter Berger and the Sociology of Knowledge 115(2) The Necessity of Interwoven Insights 117(5) A Worldview, a Way of Life 122(17) Only Connect 123(2) A Longing for Coherence 125(3) On Truth, Woody Allen and the Triumph of the Therapeutic 128(4) The Difference of Truth and the Difference It Makes 132(7) Masters, Mentors and Moral Meaning 139(17) Learning What Learning Is All About 140(2) The Good Life and Good Education 142(7) Education as Formation 149(7) The Context of a Common Life 156(19) What Do We Lose If We Lose the Story? 157(2) We Discover Who We Are, Face to Face and Side by Side 159(14) Community as a Moral Imperative 173(2) Convictions, Character, Community Incarnate 175(18) ``We Are Responsible for Germany!'' 180(4) On Learning to Care 184(3) Learning to Make Sense of Life, for Life 187(2) One More Story of Students 189(4) Epilogue: The Vocation of Healed Healers 193(8) Notes 201(14) Bibliography 215