Ten Philosophical Mistakes

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105065
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Philosophical Mistakes written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time). Ten Philosophical Mistakes examines ten errors in modern thought and shows how they have led to serious consequences in our everyday lives. It teaches how they came about, how to avoid them, and how to counter their negative effects.

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439104921
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Six Great Ideas written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-12-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enlightening study is the result of group discussions at Dr. Adler's annual seminar in Aspen, Colorado, and conversations between Dr. Adler and Bill moyers filmed for public television. Each summer, Mortimer J. Adler conducts a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty - the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice - the ideas we act on. The group discussions and conversations between Dr. Adler and journalist Bill Moyers were filmed for broadcast on public television, and thousands of people followed their exploration of these important ideas. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the specialist. He argues that "philosophy is everybody's business," and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral, and social issues that confront us daily.

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0020160224
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Think About God written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1991-07-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Adler extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas without relying on faith, mysticism, or science. Instead, he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Lightning Print On Demand Title

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The FOUR DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHY written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1993-06-21 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adler's 53rd book explores philosophy--its relation to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, mathematics, empirical science, and even poetry--and acts as an extension of the author's classic works on the conditions that that make philosophy workable.

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Difference of Man and the Difference it Makes [by] Mortimer J. Adler written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780812691788
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Questions about Language written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by Open Court Publishing. This book was released on 1991 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do meaningless marks and sounds become the meaningful words of a natural language? To what do words having referential significance refer? What is the meaning of the words that do not have referential significance? Can ordinary language really do what it appears to do, or is this an illusion? Dr. Adler maintains that these fundamental questions are not satisfactorily treated in the two main philosophies of language that have dominated twentieth-century thinking on the subject - the syntactical and 'ordinary language' approaches. Drawing upon the tradition of Aristotle, Aquinas, Poinsot, and Husserl, Dr. Adler's own discussion exemplifies the third approach, which he describes as "semantic and lexical." In this now -classic work, the fruit of more than 50 years' concern with the philosophy of language, Dr. Adler advances a powerful theory of meaning and applies it to some outstanding philosophical problems. In unpretentious and uncluttered prose, he provides a limpid introduction to a number of knotty philosophical issues and at the same time issues a challenge to some of the most tenacious doctrines of the modern world.

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781604190465
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desires, Right and Wrong written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is "moral" in the modern age? What is truly "ethical"? Adler skillfully separates "real" good from "apparent" good, and shows how excesses--like gluttony, or the lust for power--simply mistake the means for the ends. Drawing on the entire Western philosophical tradition, he tackles (and solves) some of the thorniest ethical problems facing the world today. This clear and straightforward book is geared toward the lay reader rather than the philosophy student.

Author : Mortimer Adler
Publisher : Open Court
ISBN 13 : 081269693X
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Think About the Great Ideas written by Mortimer Adler and published by Open Court. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439105669
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adler's Philosophical Dictionary written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1996-08-06 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stimulating, engaging, and organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, Adler's Philosophical Dictionary is an ideal introduction to the history of the great ideas. The terms and concepts that have simulated thinkers from Aristotle onward come to life in the latest work by the man TIME magazine has called "America's philosopher for everyman." Is the human soul immortal? What does it mean to know something? What is the nature of erotic love? Adler examines these questions as well as many others with his trademark clarity, rigor, and common sense.

Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9780020010111
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Philosopher at Large written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timed to coincide with the publication of the second volume of Mortimer J. Adler's memoirs, A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror, this paperback reissue of Philospher At Large will delight readers as America's "philospher for everyman" (Time) recounts his first 50 years of achievement in the fields of education and publishing. Photographs.