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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 111.8 EAN: 9780684826813 ISBN: 068482681X Label: Touchstone Manufacturer: Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: December 01, 1997 Publisher: Touchstone Studio: Touchstone Related Items:
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 Rating:  - For Good or IllAdler must be given his due for making philosophy more accessible to the average, non-professional reader. He deliberately tackles six classical ideas and gives reasons for their importance. For the non-specialist, these six essays may provoke interesting discussion and dialectic, or perhaps starting points for further inquiry. Such topics as beauty, truth, justice, etc. often have been lost in philosophy for the narrower, Anglo-American analysis of propositional logic. That doesn't ... Read More Rating:  - Simple exposition of Aristotle and Classical ideasAdler is great at relaying difficult philosophical truths to contemporary audiences with little to no background in philosophy. The philosophical positions accurately put forth in this book are those of Aristotle and the classical realist tradition. A truly valuable and important work. Rating:  - philosophy-liteIf you are an intellectual idiot, you will love this book! It waters down every important philosophical idea to the predjudicial opinions of one man who basically tries to use moral persuasion to "sell" his point of view but never backs up any of his "quotes" with footnotes of the "great philosphers" he is trying to "teach" us about! NO DIRECT QUOTES!! Yikes. Who can take this book seriously? I don't think Plato would appreciate being watered-down in this way with neither footnotes ... Read More Rating:  - Displays our dichotomyNo clearer indication of the philosophical divide in this nation can be seen than by reading the reviews in Amazon of the works of Mortimer Adler. One group of reviewers are geniunely concerned that he has a Western orientation, that he defends such ideas as democracy and capitalism, that he seems to speak for common sense, tradition and classical liberalism. There is another group that supports him wholeheartedly because of these very views and his sympathetic voice toward religion. TEN ... Read More Rating: - Not as good as others but still a winnerThe philosophical divide in our culture has never been so apparent as simply reading the reviews of this book. Some fault Adler for references to ethics - as if morality had no place in philosophical thought. Others fault him for using common sense (as if that were a crime) and speaking in everyday language. Others thought he was grand because he is a deist. Adler has written other books, better books, but one thing I like about all his books is their knack for inviting cogent comment and ... Read More 
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