Michael H. Mitias is a retired Professor of Philosophy at Millsaps College, USA, having taught for more than 40 years. He has written extensively on the theory of values, and has published a large number of articles and edited several books. He has written seven philosophical novels, as well as many books in the areas of aesthetics, ethics, and philosophy of religion, including Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue and The Philosophical Novel as a Literary Genre.