In this book, Robert Sokolowski argues that being a person means to be involved with truth. He shows that human
reason is established by syntactic composition in language, pictures, and actions and that we understand things
when they are presented to us through syntax. Sokolowski highlights the role of the spoken word in human reason
and examines the bodily and neurological basis for human experience. Drawing on Husserl and Aristotle, as well
as Aquinas and Henry James, Sokolowski here employs phenomenology in a highly original way in order to clarify
what we are as human agents.