We hope to share more than our knowledge of philosophy with students, but to involve them in the search for wisdom and, most importantly, to share our love of exploring truth, knowledge, beauty, and goodness. We examine the great philosophers and philosophical movements but in ways that attempt to remain faithful to the importance of philosophy for such concrete experiences as love, faith, hope, wonder, joy, sorrow, grief, music, and laughter. In other words, for us the love of wisdom is not only a search for the nature of reality but also a search for the nature, meaning, value, and purpose of the human spirit (mind).