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	Mortimer J. Adler
		Mortimer Jerome Adler was born December 28, 1902 in New York City.
		Adler passed away in June of 2001, but not before the torch of his ideas had been passed to countless home schooling families who, fed up with educational mediocrity and various other woes, have taken education into their own hands.
		Adler was also captured on film in a PBS documentarly of one of his Six Great Ideas seminars at the Aspen Institute in Colorado, and in the associated interview with Bill Moyers.
	www.nndb.com /people/593/000089326 (900 words)

	Columbia College Today
		Adler was a New Yorker, born and bred.
		Adler’s undergraduate career ended not with a bang but with a whimper in 1923, when he was accepted as a teaching assistant in the psychology department.
		Adler, building on Dialectic, designed a vast analytical study of the most important ideas in the most important books in the Western tradition — which, at that time, was the only “tradition” deserving of the name.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/nov02/nov02_forum_adler.php (3555 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Books: Mortimer J. Adler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Adler's use of language is exempt of much of the complex philosophical jargon that causes splitting migraines of confusion to the average person.
		Adler uses the perennial principles of classical realist philosophy, as was practiced up until the end of the middle ages and which was practially abandoned with Descartes, Locke, and the beginning of modern philosophy, to answer problems that have come up within the modern paradigm.
		Mortimer Adler, as he would no doubt cheerfully admit, is not going to go down as one of the 20th century's great philosophers.
	www.amazon.ca /Ten-Philosophical-Mistakes-Mortimer-Adler/dp/068481868X (2720 words)

	Mortimer Adler - MSN Encarta
		Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author.
		Personal Biography Mortimer Adler is an American professor, philosopher, and educational theorist.
		Mortimer Jerome Adler was born in New York City and educated at Columbia University.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560511/Mortimer_Adler.html (224 words)

	ADLER ARCHIVE: Mortimer J. Adler - A Biography
		Adler was driven to continue his reading after learning that Mill had read Plato when he was only five years old, while he had not read him at all.
		Adler was appointed to the philosophy faculty at the University of Chicago in 1930.
		Adler, a self-described pagan for most of his life, converted to Christianity in 1984 and was baptized by an Episcopalian priest on April 21 of that year (see his account in Chapter 9 of his second autobiography A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large).
	radicalacademy.com /adlerbio.htm (1036 words)

	Mortimer J. Adler / An Overview of his Main Philosophical Insights (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mortimer J. Adler was chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopedia Britannica, director for the Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago, and a senior associate at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.
		Adler notes that of the three great ideas we act upon justice is sovereign to liberty and equality, much as truth is sovereign to goodness and beauty.
		Adler's counter argument is based upon Locke's argument which differentiated between perceptual and conceptual thought based upon man's reflective ability.
	www.cooperativeindividualism.org /adler_overview_of_ideas.html (1484 words)

	Mortimer Adler
		Mortimer Adler is an American professor, philosopher, and educational theorist.
		In the 1930s Adler became a professor at the University of Chicago, where he advocated the adoption of the Classics as a main part of the curriculum.
		Mortimer Adler is Perennialist who believes that philosophy should become part of mainstream public school curriculum.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/nadams/educ692/Adler.html (1180 words)

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		Mortimer J. Adler (December 28, 1902-June 28, 2001) was born in New York City.
		Adler's command of the classics was so well known at Columbia University that he was awarded a doctorate in philosophy and began teaching there in the 1920s.
		During the 1950s, Adler continued to work on educational reform and his seminars involving the "great books" and "great ideas." In 1952, Adler and Robert Hutchins edited the 54 volumes of the "Great Books of the Western World" that were published by the Encyclopedia Britannica company.
	www.library.american.edu /staff/reece/adler/biography.html (373 words)

	Mortimer Adler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher and author.
		Adler was appointed to the philosophy faculty at the University of Chicago in 1930, where he met its president Robert Hutchins, with whom he founded the "Great Books of the Western World" program.
		Adler was a controversial figure in some circles who saw his focus on the classics as eurocentric and dogmatic, and he was never afraid to speak his mind.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mortimer_Adler (1337 words)

	In Memoriam Mortimer J. Adler
		Adler resisted this trend, insisting on the relationship between disciplines and authors, between aspects of culture and its creators.
		From the outset, Adler was a formidable dialectician.
		Adler's gradual progress from an early belief in the possibility of fashioning a compelling proof of God's existence to an extra-philosophical relation to God is the real story of his life.
	www.angelicum.net /html/in_memoriam_mortimer_j__adler.html (1527 words)

	Mortimer Adler - Conservapedia
		Mortimer Adler (1902 – 2001) was an American philosopher and a chairman of the board of editors of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
		Adler eventually taught at Columbia University and was given an honorary doctorate.
		Adler, a self-described pagan for most of his life, converted to Christianity in 1984 and was baptized by an Episcopalian priest on April 21 of that year.
	www.conservapedia.com /Mortimer_Adler (151 words)

	Paul G. Cressey: A Study in Practical Philosophy [Review of Art and Prudence by Mortimer Adler] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Adler's contribution is further weakened by his lengthy and pompous exposé of philosophic doctrines, his obvious and frequent contradictions, and, mostly, by his unmistakable and vocal prejudice against social science which cannot but make him an unfair
		Adler stresses the importance of knowledge, especially where the testimony of "the man of experience" as well as "common opinion" is found to be contradictory.
		This is strongly suggested in the fact that his elaborate classification of the various scholarly disciplines and their fields nowhere provides clearly for that point of approach to society and to human personality which we have come to know as sociology and as nonexperimental social psychology.
	spartan.ac.brocku.ca /~lward/Cressey/Cressey_1938b.html (3090 words)

	uExpress.com: On the Right by William F. Buckley Jr. -- (06/29/2001) MORTIMER ADLER IS DEAD
		Mortimer Adler left school at 15 to work as a secretary to the editor of the New York Sun.
		Adler: Because if anything comes into existence out of nothing, it needs a cause, and that cause has to be the -- my word for that cause -- is exnihilation (the creation of something from nothing).
		It is curious that the large obituary in The New York Times, by William Grimes, neglected to mention that Mortimer Adler, doctor of psychology and law and philosophy, found himself in later years believing in the premises of Christianity and, toward the end, in the mandate of the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.uexpress.com /ontheright/?uc_full_date=20010629 (780 words)

	Mortimer Adler Biography from Basic Famous People - Biographies of Celebrities and other Famous People
		Adler was appointed to the philosophy faculty at the University of Chicago in 1930, where he met its president Robert Hutchins, with whom he founded the Great Books of the Western World program.
		Adler was often aided in his thinking and writing by Arthur Rubin, an old friend from his Columbia undergraduate days.
		Adler was a controversial figure in some circles who saw his focus on the classics as eurocentric and dogmatic, and he was never afraid to speak his mind.
	www.basicfamouspeople.com /index.php?aid=3028 (662 words)

	A Tribute to Mortimer Adler
		If Adler was right about the current state of philosophy, most contemporary philosophers would have to recognize that they have largely abandoned the philosophical tradition.
		Mortimer Adler died on 28 June 2001, faithful to the end to the philosophical tradition that he loved.
		To paraphrase Adler, though he be "dead in the sense of not jolting us out of lethargy by his living presence, he is dead in no other sense.
	www.greatbooksacademy.org /html/a_tribute_to_mortimer_adler.html (262 words)

	William F. Buckley Jr. on NRO
		Adler: Because all of our natural science, which I think is reliable, teaches us that the causes in nature do nothing but cause change.
		Adler would go on in that way, talking as offhandedly as if conversing with a neighbor in a bus seat, passing the time of day.
		It is curious that the large obituary in the New York Times, by William Grimes, neglected to mention that Mortimer Adler, doctor of psychology and law and philosophy, found himself in later years believing in the premises of Christianity and, toward the end, in the mandate of the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.nationalreview.com /buckley/buckleyprint062901.html (757 words)

	Obituaries \| Herald-Leader Online \| Kentucky.com \| Mortimer J. Adler, great thinker, dies
		CHICAGO Mortimer J. Adler, the high school dropout who became a philosopher at 15 and revolutionized American thought by insisting that reading the Great Books was the key to understanding the human condition, died Thursday in his San Mateo, Calif., home.
		Mortimer Jerome Adler may also have been the only person in the United States to have earned a Ph.D. without having a master's degree, a bachelor's degree or a high school diploma.
		Adler had refused long ago to take the test on principle and was given an honorary master's degree so he could teach psychology classes anyway.
	people.morehead-st.edu /fs/k.mincey/Adlerobit.htm (486 words)

	Event Archive: Mortimer J. Adler - Commonwealth Club
		Professor Adler received his education, practically all of it at the higher levels, at Columbia University at a period when Columbia University, under the leadership of the late Dean Hawkes of Columbia College, had managed to become the chief center of ferment at the college level.
		Mortimer Adler went to Chicago as Professor of the Philosophy of Law.
		Adler has now induced the Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation to subsidize his thinking, and we San Franciscans should be greatly flattered that he has chosen to do his thinking among the fogs of Pacific Heights.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/20thcentury/52-10adler-intro.html (671 words)

	Mortimer J. Adler: Reforming Education
		Adler was impressed to read that Mill could read Greek at the age of 3 and had read the dialogues of Plato in Greek at the age of 5, yet Adler did not even know who Plato was.
		Adler wrote of this, "that one course...was a college in itself — the whole of a liberal education or certainly the core of it.
		But at least through the 1950s, Adler was in the ascent as the classics were returning to classrooms and homes across America earning him the titles "supersalesman of philosophy" and "the Charles Atlas of Western Intellection." After the death of Hutchins in 1977, one name became synonymous with the great books movement: Mortimer J. Adler.
	www.classicalhomeschooling.com /html/mortimer_j__adler__reforming_e.html (2567 words)

	Mortimer Jerome Adler Papers
		Mortimer Jerome Adler, born 1902 in New York City, is an American philosopher, educator, and author.
		Adler was also a board member of the Ford Foundation and the ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, whose policies and programs he helped guide and significantly influence.
		Adler has written voluminously throughout his career, consistently focusing on a cross-disciplinary and integrated philosophy of law, politics, religion, and education.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/adler.html (1419 words)

	LiteraryCritic.com -- Mortimer Adler's 'Great Books'
		Adler, who became associate professor there in 1930, continued to participate in the Honors program, instituted by John Erskine, which focused on the reading of the classics.
		These changes were based on Adler's central interests in the reading, discussion and analysis of "classic" literature and an integrated philosophical approach to the study of separate disciplines.
		See also the transcript of Adler's speech "The Great Books, the Great Ideas, and a Lifetime of Learning" given at Harvard School of Continuing Education in 1990.
	www.literarycritic.com /adler.htm (960 words)

	Lowell Lecture Series: About Dr. Mortimer J. Adler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		He is chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in Chicago, chairman of the Paideia Project, and honorary trustee of the Aspen Institute.
		Adler received his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University, where he served on the faculty from 1923 to 1930.
		It can be said of Dr. Adler that he brought philosophy, notably his favorite Aristotle, and the Great Books and Great Ideas out of the colleges and libraries to be accessible and serviceable to men and women of all ages and walks of life.
	www.dce.harvard.edu /pubs/lowell/madler2.html (347 words)

	ECONOMY PROFESSOR \| Mortimer Adler
		Upon learning that Mill had read Plato at age five, Adler decided to broaden his philosophical knowledge.
		Education never ends, in his view - age 60 is the earliest that anyone can claim to be truly 'educated', and only then if they have devoted their life to learning.
		During the 1920s and 1930s, Adler’s belief in the importance of Classical education led a significant number of American colleges and universities to adopt 'Great Books' programs - cores of required classes that focus on key works of Western philosophy and literature.
	www.economyprofessor.com /theorists/mortimeradler.php (1194 words)

	Amazon.com: Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Books: Mortimer J. Adler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Adler is a very clear writer, with a kind of conversational style that makes complex issues seem easy.
		Adler is not a "professional" philosopher, but that doesn't make his contribution any less worthy.
		Still, apart from a few sticking points, Adler has done a fine job in plunging yet another dagger into the heart of a dying school of thought (if it is not already dead, at least at its font), and his book will be of enormous value to almost any reader.
	www.amazon.com /Ten-Philosophical-Mistakes-Mortimer-Adler/dp/068481868X (3369 words)

	Welcome to the Mortimer J. Adler Archive
		Brief remarks by Dr. Adler on various topics and responses to questions that he has been asked.
		Mortimer J. Adler: Thank You, by Jonathan Dolhenty, Ph.D. Many of Dr. Adler's out-of-print books are still available.
		They are reproduced here by permission of Mortimer J. Adler, Max Weismann, and the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas.
	www.radicalacademy.com /adlerdirectory.htm (1035 words)

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