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    Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, and popular author. As a philosopher he...
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  • Mortimer is a masculine given name which may refer to: Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001), American philosopher, educator and author Mortimer Caplin (1916–2019)...
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  • How to Read a Book (category Books by Mortimer J. Adler)
    American philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. Originally published in 1940, it was heavily revised for a 1972 edition, co-authored by Adler with editor Charles...
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  • Inc.’s collection Great Books of the Western World. Compiled by Mortimer J. Adler, an American philosopher, under the guidance of Robert Hutchins, president...
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    Dr. Mortimer Adler Adler, Mortimer Jerome (1988). Reforming Education, Geraldine Van Doren, ed. (New York: MacMillan), p. xx. Adler, Mortimer J. (1977)...
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  • Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) inventor, and Mortimer J. Adler, a neo-Thomist philosopher. Kelso and Adler detail the three principles of economic justice...
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    movement in the past century. Within the secular classical movement, Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins set forth the "Great Books" of Western civilization...
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  • Philosophical theology is also closely related to the philosophy of religion. Mortimer J. Adler distinguishes philosophical theology from natural theology. While...
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    editor, with Mortimer J. Adler, editor in chief). OCLC 1139 1969: The Negro in American History, three volumes (editor, with Mortimer J. Adler, general editor;...
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  • Table of Contents for the Micropædia and Macropædia. According to Mortimer J. Adler, the designer of the Propaedia, all articles in the full Britannica...
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  • accessory volume to the second edition (1990), written by the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. According to Hutchins, "The tradition of the West is embodied in...
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  • Proposal is a K–12 educational reform plan first proposed in 1982 by Mortimer Adler. Adler was a prolific author, and references to the Paideia proposal for...
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  • were produced by dozens of editorial advisors under the direction of Mortimer J. Adler. Roughly half of these advisors have since died, including some of...
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  • 1926, Mortimer J. Adler complained that The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant was guilty throughout of "the fallacy of genetic interpretation." Adler characterized...
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  • Max Adler (actor) (born 1986), American actor Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001), American Aristotelian philosopher, author, and educator Renata Adler (born...
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  • Prominent proponents of liberal arts in the United States have included Mortimer J. Adler and E.D. Hirsch. The very concept of the ‘humanities’ as a class or...
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  • apply in normal cases, with exceptions for extreme cases. Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler, in his autobiography, characterized situation ethics as a "half-baked...
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    Macropædia is a neologism coined by Mortimer J. Adler from the ancient Greek words for "large" and "instruction". Adler's intention was that the Macropædia...
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    for the other institutions of a community. Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler wrote: In A Defence of Poetry, [Shelley] attempts to prove that poets...
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  • matters morally is simply being human. For example, noted philosopher Mortimer J. Adler wrote, "Those who oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground...
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  • edition, she writes, "This book owes its inception .. to professor Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, whose inspiration and instruction gave...
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  • refer to: The Capitalist Manifesto (Kelso and Adler book), a 1958 book by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler Capitalist Manifesto, a 2021 book by Robert...
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  • on 2005-02-16. Retrieved 2009-10-19. (accessed October 19, 2009). Mortimer J. Adler, The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Idea of Freedom...
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  • Aristotle for Everybody (category Books by Mortimer J. Adler)
    Everybody: Difficult Thought Made Easy is a 1978 book by the philosopher Mortimer J. Adler. It serves as an "introduction to common sense" and philosophic thinking...
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  • publication of the Draft were Robert Hutchins, Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Mortimer J. Adler, Stringfellow Barr, Albert Léon Guérard, Harold Innis, Erich Kahler...
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    great opponent Hegel, still the most potent of world philosophers." Mortimer J. Adler wrote the following about Kierkegaard in 1962: For Kierkegaard, man...
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  • 2000), 163. Mortimer J. Adler, The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Idea of Freedom, Vol 1 (Doubleday, 1958). Mortimer J. Adler, The Idea...
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    17-volume Macropædia. The name Micropædia is a neologism coined by Mortimer J. Adler from the ancient Greek words for "small" and "instruction"; the best...
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    A New History of the Humanities, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014. Adler, Eric; The Battle of the Classics: How a Nineteenth-Century Debate Can Save...
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    and trustee of several schools and colleges. In 1943 Benton asked Mortimer J. Adler and Robert Hutchins to edit a set of great books to be published by...
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