The Great Ideas: a Retrospective, Vol. 2: Episodes 27-52, Library Edition
First aired on KGO-TV in San Francisco from 1953-54, this original series offers a synoptical approach to the Great Books. This compendium includes Adler's philosophic renditions of art, democracy, emotions, freedom, justice, progress, forms of government, liberal education, and more.
'To be a human being is to be endowed with the proclivity to philosophize. Acknowledging this is not enough. It is also necessary to understand why this is so and what philosophy's business is. The answer, in two words, is Great Ideas - the ideas basic and indispensable to understanding ourselves, our society, and the world in which we live.' --Mortimer Alder
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About the Author:
MORTIMER J. ADLER (1902-2001) was the chairman of Britannica's Board of Editors, director of the Institute for Philosophical Reaserch, and a senior associate of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, of which he was one of the founders. He is the author of the well-known How to Read a Book and Philosopher at Large, his intellectual autobiography; and co-editor, with Charles Van Doren, of Great Treasury of Western Thought, declared the reference book of 1977 by the American Library Association.
Review:
This work provides a very readable and helpful initiation into philosophy.... recommended for all general libraries. --Choice
[T]here's no question that the ideas [Adler] presents in these chapters are important. After all, they set the terms of a series of cultural and intellectual debates we're still having today about art, curriculum and freedom. --Publishers Weekly
[T]here's no question that the ideas [Adler] presents in these chapters are important. After all, they set the terms of a series of cultural and intellectual debates we're still having today about art, curriculum and freedom. --Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherBlackstone Pub
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1441745475
- ISBN 13 9781441745477
- BindingAudio CD
- Number of pages1
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