Being -- Knowledge of being : a realist approach -- Philosophy of natural being -- Implications of natural philosophy -- Metaphysics proper -- Fundamental principles and their implications -- Our personal being -- Approaches to the human -- Life of knowledge -- Life of affectivity and choice -- Persons in community -- Human soul as spiritual -- God--being's source and end -- Reasoning to God? -- Knowledge of God : negative and analogical -- The world and its creator -- Providence and evil -- "God's call" and the response of faith.