Mortimer J. Adler
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...
Federalist Papers No. 80, Alexander Hamilton
FOUNDERS CORNER LIBRARY: MAJOR WORKS
Saturday, June 21, 1788
Judicial Powers and Jurisdiction
TO JUDGE with accuracy of the proper extent of the federal judicature, it will...
Federalist Papers No. 79, Alexander Hamilton
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The Judiciary Continued
NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed...
Moses Mather On Free Agency
CALLED UNTO LIBERTY, FOUNDING ERA SERMONS, MOSES MATHER
1775
Free agency, or a rational existence, with its powers and faculties, and freedom of enjoying and exercising...
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...
Federalist Papers, No. 1: Alexander Hamilton
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Saturday, October 27, 1787
General Introduction
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon...
Ownership Must Be Tempered by Sharing
LAWRENCE W. REED, THE FREEMAN
Clichés of Progressivism, Part 16
Progressives have a problem with ownership, especially when it’s yours. The very notion seems to conjure...
Bureaucracy and the Tyranny of Minority Power
American Minute with Bill Federer
President Calvin Coolidge warned in a speech given MAY 15, 1926, at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg,...
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....
Federalist Papers No. 78, Alexander Hamilton
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June 14, 1788
The Judiciary Department
WE PROCEED now to an examination of the judiciary department of the proposed government.
In unfolding the defects...
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...