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To all the members of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas |
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From the back cover: "Adler has a passion for clarity and a capacity for precision. He has an ability to make the most difficult things intelligible by talking about them in simple English prose and using everyday examples. "If, as Adler says, the work of the teacher is to arouse in the student a deep and lively interest in the things that should be learned, then this book will serve well as a valuable teacher to its readers. It will serve both to awaken the sleeping intellect and to challenge the lively one." —Chris Nelson, “Mortimer Adler’s insight once again cuts through the befogging claims of postmodernism and cultural relativism to provide the clearest possible statement of the enduring value of the Great Ideas in the Western philosophical tradition.” —Milton J. Rosenberg |
ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments About the Author Author’s Introduction 1. How to Think about Truth 2. How to Think about Opinion 3. The Difference between Knowledge and Opinion 4. Opinion and Human Freedom 5. Opinion and Majority Rule 6. How to Think about Man 7. How Different Are Humans? 8. The Darwinian Theory of Human Origin 9. The Answer to Darwin 10. The Uniqueness of Man 11. How to Think about Emotion 12. How to Think about Love 13. Love as Friendship: A World Without Sex 14. Sexual Love 15. The Morality of Love 16. How to Think about Good and Evil 17. How to Think about Beauty 18. How to Think about Freedom 19. How to Think about Learning 20. Youth Is a Barrier to Learning 21. How to Read a Book 22. How to Talk 23. How to Watch TV 24. How to Think about Art 25. The Kinds of Art 26. The Fine Arts 27. The Goodness of Art 28. How to Think about Justice 29. How to Think about Punishment 30. How to Think about Language 31. How to Think about Work 32. Work, Play, and Leisure 33. The Dignity of All Kinds of Work 34. Work and Leisure Then and Now 35. Work, Leisure, and Liberal Education 36. How to Think about Law 37. The Kinds of Law 38. The Making of Law 39. The justice of Law 40. How to Think about Government 41. The Nature of Government 42. The Powers of Government 43. The Best Form of Government 44. How to Think about Democracy 45. How to Think about Change 46. How to Think about Progress 47. How to Think about War and Peace 48. How to Think about Philosophy 49. How Philosophy Differs from Science and Religion 50. Unsolved Problems of Philosophy 51. How Can Philosophy Progress? 52. How to Think about God Historical Note: How This Book Came to Be |
