Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001)
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Born in New York, Mortimer Adler was educated at Columbia University. Later as a philosophy instructor there, he taught in a program focused on the intellectual foundations of Western civilization. Called to the University of Chicago in 1927 by President Robert Maynard Hutchins, Adler played a mehr anzeigen major role in renovating the undergraduate curriculum to center on the "great books." His philosophical interests committed to the dialectical method crystallized in a defense of neo-Thomism, but he never strayed far from concerns with education and other vital public issues. From 1942 to 1945, Adler was director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, based in San Francisco, California. Beginning in 1945 he served as associate editor of Great Books of the Western World series, and in 1952 he published Syntopicon, an analytic index of the great ideas in the great books. In 1966 he became director of the editorial planning for the fifteen edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and in 1974, chairman of its editorial board. Adler has been devoted in recent years to expounding his interpretations of selected great ideas and to advocating his Paideia Proposal. That proposal would require that all students receive the same quantity and quality of education, which would concentrate on the study of the great ideas expressed in the great books, a study conducted by means of the dialectical method. Mortimer J. Adler died June 28, 2001 at his home in San Mateo, California at the age of 98. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 1: The Great Conversation (1952) — Herausgeber — 545 Exemplare
How to Think About the Great Ideas: From the Great Books of Western Civilization (2000) 401 Exemplare
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 3: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Man - World (1952) — Herausgeber — 343 Exemplare
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon I: Angel - Love (1952) — Herausgeber — 304 Exemplare
Great Ideas Program Volume 02: The Development of Political Theory and Government (1959) 113 Exemplare
Great Treasury of Western Thought: A Compendium of Important Statements and Comments on Man and His Institutions by… (1977) — Herausgeber — 112 Exemplare
Great Ideas Program Volume 01: Introduction to the Great Books and to a Liberal Education (1959) 58 Exemplare
A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large (1992) 54 Exemplare
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The Annals of America Volume 10 - 1866-1883 Reconstruction and Industrialization (1968) 39 Exemplare
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The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 43: Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche (1990) — Herausgeber — 27 Exemplare
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 55: 20th Century Philosophy and Religion (1990) 26 Exemplare
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 59: 20th Century Imaginative Literature I (1994) 24 Exemplare
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The Annals of America Volume 21 - 1977-1986 Opportunities and Problems at Home and Abroad (1976) 22 Exemplare
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 60: 20th Century Imaginative Literature II (1990) 20 Exemplare
The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 2: The Great Ideas, A Syntopicon II: Immortality - Punishment (1990) 18 Exemplare
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The American testament: For the Institute for Philosophical Research and the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies (1975) 9 Exemplare
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The Great Ideas Today: Vol 1961 - 1998 3 Exemplare
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The Great Books of the Western World, Vol. 5: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes (1952) — Herausgeber — 486 Exemplare
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Britannica Great Books: Gilbert, Galileo, Harvey (1600) — Herausgeber, einige Ausgaben — 334 Exemplare
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Philosophers Who Believe: The Spiritual Journeys of 11 Leading Thinkers (1993) — Mitwirkender — 247 Exemplare
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Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 1: The Individual and Human Values (1964) — Mitwirkender — 40 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Adler, Mortimer J.
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Adler, Mortimer Jerome
- Geburtstag
- 1902-12-28
- Todestag
- 2001-06-28
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- New York, New York, USA
- Sterbeort
- San Mateo, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
San Mateo, California, USA - Ausbildung
- Columbia University (BA | 1984)
Columbia University (PhD | 1928 | psychology) - Berufe
- secretary (New York Sun)
instructor (Columbia University)
director (Institute for Philosophical Research)
philosopher (Aristotelian)
editor (Encyclopædia Britannica)
honorary chairman (Center for the Study of Great Ideas) (Zeige alle 9)
copy boy (New York Sun)
board chairman (Encylopaedia Britannica)
ethicist - Organisationen
- Columbia University
Great Books Foundation
Institue for Philosophical Research (founder)
Center for the Study of Great Ideas (co-founder)
American Catholic Philosophical Association
Aspen Institute (Zeige alle 7)
St John's College - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Charles Frankel Prize (1990)
- Kurzbiographie
- Mortimer J. Adler was the author of popular and bestselling books that introduced moral and philosophic ideas to many new readers. He was a co-founder of the "Great Books of the Western World" program and Foundation.
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