Section I -- Historical and Contemporary Virtues As Reflected in Chinese Literatre -- Revisiting the Traditional Virtues of the Hero -- Beauty, Taste, and Enlightenment in Hume's Aesthetic Thought -- Section II -- Virtues of the Heart -- The Willing Subject and the Non-Willing Subject in the Tao Te Ching and Nietzsche's Hyperborean -- Virtue in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead -- Section III -- Inherent and Intentional Inquiries on Virtues -- Striving and Accepting Limits As Competing Meta-Virtues -- Happiness, Division, and Illusions of the Self in Plato's Symposium -- The Virtue of Responsibility -- Section IV -- Enlightenment, Humanization, and Beauty in The Light of Schiller's "Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man" -- Beyond Adaptation -- Between the Ironic and the Irenic -- Phenomenological Temporality and Proustian Nostalgia -- Section V -- Art and Awareness -- The Image in the History of Thought -- The Narrative Model -- Political Symbolism in the Saint Antoine Gate, 1585-1672 -- Music Theory and Phenomenology of Musical Performance.