A Late Awakening and Other Essays (contents)

A Late Awakening and Other Essays
by Stanley L. Jaki
2006 (Port Huron, MI: Real View Books) viii+256pp.

1. A Late Awakening to Gödel in Physics
   First published in Sensus communis 5(2004), pp.153-162.
2. Myopia with Lynx Eyes about a Text of Aristotle
   First published in Sensus communis 4 (2003) 2-3, pp. 145-163.
3. Pierre Duhem: Uneasy Genius
   This chapter is an expanded form of the text of a lecture delivered at the University of Lisbon on October 12, 2002.
4. Christ and the History of Science
   This chapter is an expanded form of a lecture given at the University of Lisbon on October 13, 1003. (sic)
5. What God Has Separated... Reflections on Science and Religion
   This chapter is an expanded form of a lecture given at St. John's University (Queens, N.Y.) on February 20, 2003.
6. Christ, Creation, and Science
   This essay was read at the University of Navarra, on April 26, 2005, and then at the Catholic Forum of the Cathedral of Lancaster, on May 4, 2005.
7. Christ, Extraterrestrials, and the Devil
   This chapter is the text of a lecture read as part of a lecture series at Lancaster Cathedral on July 22, 2005.
8. Relativity and Religion
   First published in Quarterly of Catholic Scholars, Fall 2005. Reprinted with permission.
9. Purpose Redux
   Text of a lecture given at the invitation of the Department of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., January 24, 2003.
10. The Metamorphoses of Human Dignity
    This is the English text, published in Aquinas (Rome) 57 (2004), pp. 284-91, of a speech given in Hungarian before the Hungarian Society of Bioethics at its Meeting on "Human Dignity," in Budapest, September 17, 2003.
11. The Parasitical Society and Its Parasite Families
    A lecture given first in Hungarian at the meeting of the Hungarian Bioethical Society, Budapest, Sept. 18, 2002.
12. A Dire Need and Vain Hopes: Bioethics at the Third Millennium
    Invited paper presented in Hungarian at the Meeting of the Hungarian Society of Bioethics, Budapest, Sept. 8, 2004. First published here in English.
13. Jewish Psychiatrist Turns Catholic
    This chapter is a slightly longer form of the Introduction in the re-edition of Karl Stern's Pillar of Fire (New Hope, KY: The Remnant of Israel, 2000), the second volume of "Studies in Catholic-Jewish Relations."
14. Chesterton a Seer of Science
    This chapter is the expanded form of an invited address delivered at the meeting of the American Chesterton Society, Minneapolis, June 18, 2004, to be published also in Chesterton And ... (American Chesterton Society: Minneapolis, 2006).
15. Heretics and Dogmatists: or the Gist of Chesterton's Heretics
    Keynote address at the Annual Conference of the American Chesterton Society, held at Saint Thomas University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, on June 16, 2005, to be published also in Chesterton And... (American Chesterton Society: Minneapolis, 2006).
16. A Non-Thomist Thomism
    First published in Sensus communis 4-1(2003), pp. 75-88; reprinted with permission.
17. Thomas and the Universe
    First published in Thomist 53 (October 1989), pp. 545-72.

Notes: Jaki's title of chapter five has a striking similarity to a famous line of Chesterton: "Those whom God has sundered, shall no man join." This refers to man and woman, and is the concluding sentence of "Two Stubborn Pieces of Iron" in The Common Man.