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Philosophical Mistakes
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
This quote is from a chapter on Philosophy's Past from Dr. Adler's book "The Four Dimensions of Philosophy." Hopefully it...
Adler ‘On The Relativity of Values’
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
Dear Dr. Adler,
History and anthropology reveal great variation in moral standards and beliefs among various peoples and cultures. Are there...
On Romantic Love
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
A Conversation Between Max Weismann and Dr. Mortimer Adler
WEISMANN: Could you help us and begin by naming the three bad...
Habits, Good and Bad
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Looked at one way, all habits are perfections, whether good or bad. They are improvements of the nature we come...
Does the End Justify the Means?
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Does the end justify the means? Can it sometimes be right to use a bad means to achieve a good...
The Ethics of Enough
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Who has not said or heard someone else say "Enough is enough"? The statement is a tautology and, as such,...
On Moral Philosophy
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
Philosophy, seeking to establish itself as knowledge rather than mere speculation and unfounded opinion, is afflicted with a series of...
THE ETHICS OF COMMON SENSE
The Only Moral Philosophy That Is Sound, Practical, and Undogmatic
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER
The teleological ethics of common sense is the only moral philosophy that...
Aristotle’s Ethics: The Theory of Happiness – II
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER
The main point we have seen so far is that, for Aristotle, a happy life is a good life. In other...
Aristotle’s Ethics: The Theory of Happiness – I
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER
The Humanities represent man's concern with man and with the human world.
In that concern there is no more important problem than...
The Great Conversation
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER
Happy is the man who, in the course of a complete life, attains everything he desires, provided he desire nothing...
The Human Equation in Dialectic
MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
In the Sophist, Plato separates the philosopher from the sophist, not by any distinction in method, but by the difference in...
The Confusion of the Animalists
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
A recent book, entitled Apes, Men, and Language, bears the subtitle "How teaching chimpanzees to 'talk' alters man's notions of...
Controversy in the Life and Teaching of Philosophy
MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
PART 1
In a little more than twenty years, the honor of delivering the Annual Association Address has been thrice conferred on...
Philosophy’s Future
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
There is little point in asking whether philosophy has a future, for that question hardly admits of a negative answer. The...
The Bodyguards of Truth – Mortimer J. Adler
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
My serious study of philosophy began when, at Columbia University in the early twenties, I took a course in the...
The Vicissitudes of Philosophy in Modern Times
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
In each of the two historical epochs that we have so far surveyed -- antiquity and the Middle Ages --Â we...
The Questions Science Cannot Answer
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
Any consideration of science and philosophy presupposes some difference between them. According to the way in which we understand that...
Mortimer J. Adler: The Good Life and the Good Society
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
Politics is sometimes regarded as the sovereign or controlling discipline in the practical order -- the order of action. It...
Modern Science and Ancient Wisdom – Mortimer J. Adler
BY MORTIMER J. ADLER, PH.D.
The outstanding achievement and intellectual glory of modern times has been empirical science and the mathematics that it has put...
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