Tag: philosophy
Jesus Trumps All the Moral Philosophers!
THOMAS JEFFERSON LEADERSHIP
I had promised some day to write … my view of the Christian system … a general view of the moral...
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...
Medicine and Morals
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
INTRODUCTION by Max Weismann
In 1936, Mortimer J. Adler delivered a series of lectures at the Institute for Psychoanalysis in Chicago....
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...
Adler: The Mistake of Giving Primacy of the Right Over the Good
by Mortimer J. Adler, Ph.D.
The domain of justice is divided into two main spheres of interest. One is concerned with the justice of the...
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 Men Who Do Not Lift
The Men Who do not Lift.
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THE world is sympathetic. The statement none can doubt;
When A’s in trouble don’t we think that B should help...
American Papers: National Thanksgiving Proclamation—1789
Thanksgiving
In 1789, both houses of Congress requested that George Washington acknowledge the many favors of Almighty God with a national day of thanksgiving and...
Aquinas: On Just War
DAILY DABBLE IN THE CLASSICS, ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the...
Life In Plants and Animals
The Philosophy of Man
A brief introduction to rational psychology
Adapted from various sources and edited
by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D.
Part Two: Life in Plants and Animals
Life as...
The Principle of the Practical Effect
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
Pyrrho was a citizen of Elis in ancient Greece, born around 360 B.C. or so and, to the best of our...
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...
Out Of Small Beginnings
Thanksgiving
During the winter of 1623, the Pilgrims subsisted for a time on a daily ration of five kernels of parched corn. The tradition of...
A Theory of Public Nonsense
BY JONATHAN DOLHENTY, PH.D.
An analysis of nonsense in areas as broad as social behavior, political policy, and science can be complex and intimidating. Since...
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...