Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: listen, speak
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0684846470
ISBN-13: 9780684846477

Adler here gives the listener a short course in effective communication. Both instructive and practical, this work is invaluable to professionals as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.

Author: Mortimer Adler
Publisher: Fordham University Pre
Keywords: politics, sense, common
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 1996-01-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0823216675
ISBN-13: 9780823216673

The first edition of The Common Sense of Politics described itself as a "just in time tonic for those of us who have given up on common sense as well as on politics and can no longer see the connection between the two." One has only to scan the pages of this 1996 edition to recognize that this book is just as appropriate and important, if not more. With the development of a European Community, the upcoming American presidential election, and in light of the recent celebration of the U.N.’s 50th anniversary, it is crucial that we, as citizens of the world, approach politics with common se

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: mistakes, philosophical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 068481868X
ISBN-13: 9780684818689

For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America’s "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time).

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: truth, unity, religions, plurality, religion
Number of Pages: 180
Published: 1992-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0020641400
ISBN-13: 9780020641407

Only if, with regard to the diversity of religions, there are questions about truth and falsehood do we have a problem about the pluralism of religions and the unity of truth. That problem is not concerned with preserving religious liberty, freedom of worship, and the toleration, in a particular society or in the world, of a diversity of religious institutions, communities, practices, and beliefs. It is concerned only with the question of where, in that diversity, the truth lies if there is any truth in religion at all.

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: philosophy, dimensions, four
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1993-06-21
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 002500574X
ISBN-13: 9780025005747

This book is about philosophy’s relationship to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, maths, physics, and even poetry. The author demonstrates how philosophy - like history, but unlike physics - is reflexive. That is, one may write a history of history as well as a history of physics, but not a physics of physics.

Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: proposal, paideia
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0684841886
ISBN-13: 9780684841885

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Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Open Court
Keywords: civilization, western, books, ideas, think
Number of Pages: 530
Published: 2000-03-28
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0812694120
ISBN-13: 9780812694123

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 remarkab