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Mortimer Adler

    December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001

    Mortimer Adler byl americký filozof a popularizátor vzdělanosti, který se zasazoval o zpřístupnění náročných myšlenek široké veřejnosti. Jeho práce čerpaly z aristotelského a tomistického myšlení, ale byly psány srozumitelným jazykem pro čtenáře mimo akademickou sféru. Adler se snažil vybavit lidi nástroji k lepšímu čtení a porozumění složitým textům, čímž je povznesl na novou úroveň myšlení. Jeho celoživotním posláním bylo spojit filozofii s každodenním životem a inspirovat lidi k hlubšímu zamyšlení.

    How to Speak. How to Listen
    Aristotle for Everybody
    Haves Without Have-Nots
    Six Great Ideas
    How to read a book
    How to Think about the Great Ideas
    • Aristoteles to go

      Der leichte Zugang zu komplexen Gedanken

      Aristoteles (384–322 v. Chr.) lehrte Alexander den Großen die Logik und durch seine philosophischen Werke jeden Philosophen seither, von Mark Aurel über Thomas von Aquin bis zu Mortimer J. Adler. Jetzt lehrt Adler – einst Vorstandsvorsitzender der renommierten Encyclopedia Britannica – die Welt die aristotelische Logik, indem er Aristoteles’ Erkenntnisse in einer aktuellen, wunderbar verständlichen Weise präsentiert. Er bringt Aristoteles’ Werk auf eine alltägliche, für jeden verständliche Ebene – »to go«, wie auf einen schnellen Kaffee mit Aristoteles. Indem er die Leser ermutigt, selbst philosophisch zu denken, bietet Adler uns einen einzigartigen Weg zu persönlichen Einsichten und zum Verständnis der grandiosen aristotelischen Philosophie, wie der Unterschied zwischen Wünschen und Bedürfnissen, der richtige Weg zum Glück und der richtige Plan für ein gutes Leben.

      Aristoteles to go2024
    • "Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them."--]cProvided by publisher

      How to read a book2014
      4,0
    • Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, philosophy, and history, Adler considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of more than two millennia of Western civilization. 15 photos.

      How to Think about the Great Ideas2000
      4,0
    • Paideia Proposal

      • 96 stránek
      • 4 hodiny čtení

      Focusing on a democratic approach to education, the proposal advocates for a liberal education accessible to all children, countering outdated 19th-century practices. It emphasizes that every child is educable and that learning is a lifelong journey, facilitated by active engagement rather than traditional teacher-led instruction. The framework encourages diverse teaching methods and prioritizes enduring values over mere vocational training. Adler's vision aims to cultivate informed citizens, rejecting elitism in favor of inclusivity in educational opportunities.

      Paideia Proposal1998
      3,8
    • How to Speak. How to Listen

      • 288 stránek
      • 11 hodin čtení

      Drawing on decades of experience as an educator and philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler gives a short course in effective communication, invaluable for salespeople, negotiators, teachers, and families seeking better communication among themselves.

      How to Speak. How to Listen1997
      3,9
    • Six Great Ideas

      • 256 stránek
      • 9 hodin čtení

      Each summer, Mortimer J. Adler conducts a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty - the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice - the ideas we act on. The group discussions and conversations between Dr. Adler and journalist Bill Moyers were filmed for broadcast on public television, and thousands of people followed their exploration of these important ideas. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the specialist. He argues that "philosophy is everybody's business," and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral, and social issues that confront us daily.

      Six Great Ideas1997
      4,0
    • Mortimer J. Adler's Haves Without Have-Nots is a compilation of six essays revolving around a unifying theme: the convergence of capitalism and socialism in a politically and economically democratic world society, the likes of which has never been seen until now, as the 20th century draws to a close.

      Haves Without Have-Nots1991
      3,8
    • The Great Ideas, Vol. 2

      A Syntopicon of Great Books of the Western World

      54 volume series of the Great Books, published by Britannica.1. The great conversation / by R.M. Hutchins 2-3. The great ideas 4. The Iliad of Homer. The Odyssey 5. Aeschylus. Sophocles. Euripides. Aristophanes 6. Herodotus. Thucydides 7. Plato 8-9. Aristotle 10. Hippocrates. Galen 11. Euclid. Archimedes. Appollonius of Perga. Nicomachus 12. Lucretius. Epictetus. Marcus Aurelius 13. Virgil 14. Plutarch 15. Tacitus 16. Ptolemy. Copernicus. Kepler 17. Plotinus 18. Augustine 19-20. Thomas Aquinas 21. Dante 22. Chaucer 23. Machiavelli. Hobbes 24. Rabelais 25. Montaigne 26-27. Shakespeare 28. Gilbert. Galileo. Harvey 29. Cervantes 30. Francis Bacon 31. Descartes. Spinoza 32. John Milton 33. Pascal 34. Newton. Huygens 35. Locke. Berkeley. Hume 36. Swift. Sterne 37. Henry Fielding 38. Montesquieu. Rousseau 39. Adam Smith 40-41. Gibbon 42. Kant 43. American state papers. The Federalist. J.S. Mill 44. Boswell 45. Lavoisier. Fourier. Faraday 46. Hegel 47. Goethe 48. Melville 49. Darwin 50. Marx 51. Tolstoy 52. Dostoevsky 53. William James 54. Freud.

      The Great Ideas, Vol. 21986