In Seeking the Truth of Things, he tries to do what he does in the classroom: serve as a translatordefine, describe, and take the topic apart, raise issues, ask questions, offer some alternatives, and invite readers to decide for themselves, to provoke thought while being a catalyst for moral reasoning. He writes on individual topics, issues, and questions, such as meaning, sin, humor, choice, moral courage, work, leisure, even the importance of travel.