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The St. John's Review exemplifies, encourages, and enhances the disciplined reflection that is nurtured by the St. John's Program. It does so both through the character most in common among its contributors — their familiarity with the Program and their respect for it — and through the style and content of their contributions. As it represents the St. John's Program, The St. John's Review espouses no philosophical, religious, or political doctrine beyond a dedication to liberal learning, and its readers may expect to find diversity of thought represented in its pages.


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Volume 53, number 1      PDF

Essays
Reading the Constitution as a Great Book............................1
William Braithwaite
Platonic and Jewish Antecedents to ...................................33
     Johannes de Silentio's Knight of Faith
Jacob Howland
Kant's Rational Being as Moral Being ...............................47
Joseph Smith
Reflections
What Did You Learn? .........................................................73
Lise van Boxel

Poem
To the New Recruits............................................................81
Elliott Zuckerman

Reviews
Delphic Examinations
A Review of David Leibowitz's The Ironic Defense of
     Socrates: Plato's Apology ............................................83
David Bolotin
Toleration
A Review of Eva Brann's Homage to Americans.............101
Janet Doughterty

Editor
William Pastille

Editorial Board
Eva T. H. Brann
Frank Hunt
Joe Sachs
John Van Doren
Robert B. Williamson
Elliott Zuckerman

Subscriptions and Editorial Assistant
Deziree Arnaiz

The St. John's Review is published by the Office of the Dean, St. John's College, Annapolis: Christopher B. Nelson, President; Pamela Kraus, Dean. All manuscripts are subject to blind review. Address correspondence to The St. John's Review, St. John's College, P.O. Box 2800, Annapolis, MD 21404-2800 or via e-mail at review@sjca.edu.

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