1/12/2008

1987 Mortimer J. Adler On The Constitution

I hope this will work.  Very long, very difficult, Dr. Adler became harder to understand as he got older, but exceedingly rewarding

posted by Tom Kufahl @ 11:20 AM   1 comments

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At January 13, 2008 at 9:09 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

If you are intrigued with this video I urge you to urge you to read Dr. Adler’s book, “We Hold These Truths” (1985). Adler was a educator, philosopher, lecturer and author with a prodigious output of over 50 books and more than 200 articles. Here’s a little more.

I have been a voracious reader all my life. I never thought that I needed to know anything more about how to read. However 1990 I read about a book by someone named Mortimer Adler whom I had never heard of. The title of the book was “How to Read a Book.” Even though I thought I knew everything about how to read I became intrigued by the title. I finally bought the book. I read it and then I read it again, and again, and again. Over the course of several years Dr. Adler dramatically changed what I read, how I read, and why I read. I used to read predominantly to be entertained. Now I read to learn. Using what Dr. Adler taught me, I now get in order of magnitude more out of books that I ever did before.

If you have not already done so I urge you to read "The Time of Our Lives" by Mortimer Adler. In this book he summarizes and adds to Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy about what it means to live a good life, why we should live a good life, and how to live a good life.

For more information on Mortimer Adler and his work, visit The Center for the Study of The Great Ideas

Ken Dzugan
Senior Fellow and Archivist
The Center for the Study of The Great Ideas

 

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