Adriaan Peperzak has for many years explored the connections between philosophy, ethics, religion and the social and historical contexts of human experience. A leading expert on Hegel, Heidegger and Levinas, he here offers a personal gathering of influences on his own work as guides to uses of philosophy in our search for sense and meaning. In short, direct, deeply felt chapters, Peperzak moves from Plato, Plotinus and the early Christian theologians to Anselm, Bonaventure, Descartes, Pascal, Liebniz, Hegel and Levinas. Throughout, he touches on fundamental themes - from reason and faith to freedom and tradition - that knit together the enduring legacy of philosophy as a guide to living wisely.