Originally published in 1961. The four main fields considered are: the arts, religion, moral knowledge, and our knowledge of one another. It is contended that increase of 'wisdom', or 'educated understanding', can be achieved only through acceptance and assimilation of all their many-sided disciplines into personal insight.

Preface; Introduction; Part 1 Knowledge and Experience of the Arts; Chapter I Knowledge, Symbolization and Art; Chapter II Poetry, Embodiment and Aesthetic Meaning; Chapter III Values, Feeling and Embodiment; Chapter IV Musical Meaning, Representation and 'Truth'; Part 2 Knowledge and Religion; Chapter V 'Religion' and Difficulties of Discussion about Religion; Chapter VI The 'Languages' of Religion; Chapter VII Mythology and Religion; Chapter VIII Christianity and History; Chapter IX 'Knowledge' and 'Truth' in Religion and Theology, and Their Validation; Part 3 Moral Knowledge; Chapter X Ethics and Knowledge of the Good; Chapter XI The Nature and Knowledge of Right; Chapter XII Principles and Rules; Part 4 Personal Knowledge; Chapter XIII The Possibility of Knowledge of Others; Chapter XIV Variations of Personal Relationships: Friendship and Love; Chapter XV Persons, and the Unity and Variety of Knowledge;