Wood presents 22 papers published during four decades, each grounded in the regular teaching of graduate and undergraduate philosophy courses and based on the reading of select classic texts from Heraclitus to Parmenides to Nietzsche and Heidegger. The title of the collection reflects the major themes of his career: thinking, being, and the heart. Among the topics are Plato's line revisited: the pedagogy of complete perfection, the self and the other: Aquinas' list of transcendentals, Hegel from misunderstanding to the beginning of understanding, five bodies and a sixth: awareness in an evolutionary universe, and the dialogical principles: Buber and Marcel. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)