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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 081 EAN: 9780812694123 ISBN: 0812694120 Label: Open Court Manufacturer: Open Court Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 600 Publication Date: March 28, 2000 Publisher: Open Court Studio: Open Court Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?", and, "What does it mean to be good?" Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of more than two millennia of Western civilization and discourse. Adler's essays offer a remarkable and contemplative distillation of the Great Ideas of Western Thought. Average Rating:
 Rating: - How to Think About the Great Ideas by Mortimer AdlerThis is an excellent book for academicians, journalists, historians, philosophers, linquists and a whole host of thinkers in the arts and sciences. The author discusses theoretic universals in some level of detail. For instance, he roughly equates consistency with truth. In mathematics, a proof is not complete without enough consistent examples of an application and no deviations from the theorem. The author discusses the distinction between knowledge and opinion. ... Read More Rating: - A great "Cliff Notes" version of Adler argumentsI found this book very helpful. I was introduced to Adler's writing about a year ago and have read 4-5 of his books, his two autobiographies, and 30 or so of his papers through the TGI website with Max W. This book is a great summary of basic ideas in very accessible manner, such as: definition of truth; the moral *obligation* not just the right, to be controversial; crystalization of Adler's arguments against Darwin of why man's mental capabiliteis are a difference in kind and ... Read More Rating:  - Basic introduction to some of Adler's Great Ideas.Each chapter represents one program and most consist of a dialogue of sorts between Adler and Luckman, with Adler also answering viewer questions. But as it must already be clear what this book is, I will seek to establish why I gave it only three stars. Firstly, because Amazon does not permit assigning 3 and 1/2 stars. Second, that it is rather long considering how much there is to actually gain from it. The number of subjects that he attempts to cover reduces most of the discussions to a rather ... Read More Rating: - Enlightening history and nice referenceThis work is a handy reference to which I refer often. Adler provides a very useful "history of ideas". Each section covers what the some of the greatest thinkers have said about a particular idea, ideas such as "justice", "knowledge", "truth","God", etc. This book is a must if one wants to get a quick "birds eye" view of ideas and what great thinkers have said about them, and provides a nice springboard and direction for further study. Rating: - Summary Without Loss of DepthHow do you summarize a summary of 2500 years of thought? Great! Mortimer Adler was one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th Century, primarily because of the literally ecyclopaedic nature of his knowledge. I say literally encyclopaedic because he edited the Encyclopaedia Britanica and wrote The Synopticon, a summary of Western philosophy, among the scores of other books bearing his name. He is best known for popularizing the Great Books theory of education. This is based on his own original reseach ... Read More 
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