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20th century, American philosopher, worked at the University of Chicago with the legendary president, Robert Hutchins. Known for his efforts to revolutionize education. Author of "How to Read a Book" and editor of the multi-volumed "Great Books of Western Civilization" and its associated "Syntopicon."

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• Center for the Study of the Great Ideas

  http://www.thegreatideas.org/
  Founded by Mortimer Adler and Max Weismann. Dedicated to the proposition that "Philosophy is everybody's business."

• God and the Professors

  http://ditext.com/adler/gp.html
  Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion (1941).

• Sense Cognition: Aristotle vs. Aquinas

  http://ditext.com/adler/sense.html
  An article by Mortimer J. Adler. Appeared in "The New Scholasticism" 42 (Autumn 1968): 578-591.

• The Crisis in Contemporary Education

  http://ditext.com/adler/frontier.html
  An article by Mortimer J. Adler. Published in "The Social Frontier," February, 1939, Vol. V, No. 42, pp. 140-145.

• The Question About Man

  http://ditext.com/adler/difference.html
  First chapter of Mortimer Adler's book "The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes" (1967).

 

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