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As a philosopher he worked within the <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomistic">Thomistic</a> traditions. He taught at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, served as chairman of the <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a> board of editors, and founded the Institute for Philosophical Research. <table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Mortimer J. Adler</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Mortimer_Adler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Adler seated at a table in front of an open book" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Mortimer_Adler.jpg/220px-Mortimer_Adler.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="300" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Mortimer_Adler.jpg/330px-Mortimer_Adler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Mortimer_Adler.jpg/440px-Mortimer_Adler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="477" data-file-height="651"></a><div class="infobox-caption">Adler while presiding over the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Mortimer Jerome Adler</div> (1902-12-28)December 28, 1902 <div style="display:inline" class="birthplace">New York City, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 28, 2001(2001-06-28) (aged 98) <div style="display:inline" class="deathplace"><a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo, California</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> (PhD)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Notable work</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Aristotle_for_Everybody" title="Aristotle for Everybody">Aristotle for Everybody</a>, <a href="/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book" title="How to Read a Book">How to Read a Book</a>, <a href="/wiki/A_Syntopicon" title="A Syntopicon">A Syntopicon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouses</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Helen Leavenworth Boynton </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1927; <abbr title="divorced">div.</abbr> 1960)</div></li><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1151524712"> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;">Caroline Sage Pring </div> <div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1963; died 1998)</div></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Era</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/20th-century_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="20th-century philosophy">20th-century philosophy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Region</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Western_philosophy" title="Western philosophy">Western philosophy</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_schools_of_philosophy" class="mw-redirect" title="List of schools of philosophy">School</a></th><td class="infobox-data category"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelianism</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Thomism" title="Thomism">Thomism</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Main interests</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_theology" title="Philosophical theology">Philosophical theology</a>, <a href="/wiki/Metaphysics" title="Metaphysics">metaphysics</a>, ethics</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> He lived for long stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and <a href="/wiki/San_Mateo,_California" title="San Mateo, California">San Mateo, California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none"><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Biography">1 Biography</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Intellectual_development_and_philosophic_evolution">1.1 Intellectual development and philosophic evolution</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#New_York_City">1.2 New York City</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Chicago">1.3 Chicago</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Popular_appeal">1.4 Popular appeal</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Encyclopedia_and_Educational_Reform">2 Encyclopedia and Educational Reform</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Great_books_of_the_Western_canon">2.1 Great books of the Western canon</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Religion_and_theology">3 Religion and theology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Philosophy">4 Philosophy</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#Freedom_and_free_will">4.1 Freedom and free will</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11"><a href="#Religion">4.2 Religion</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12"><a href="#Personal_life">5 Personal life</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13"><a href="#Awards">6 Awards</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14"><a href="#Published_works">7 Published works</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Anthologies,_collections_and_surveys_edited_by_Adler">7.1 Anthologies, collections and surveys edited by Adler</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16"><a href="#See_also">8 See also</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17"><a href="#References">9 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-18"><a href="#Further_reading">10 Further reading</a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#External_links">11 External links</a></li> </ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(1)"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-1 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-1"> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Intellectual_development_and_philosophic_evolution">Intellectual development and philosophic evolution</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Intellectual development and philosophic evolution" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> While doing newspaper work and taking night classes during his adolescence, Adler encountered works of men he would come to call heroes: <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a>, <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas">Thomas Aquinas</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Locke" title="John Locke">John Locke</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a>, and others, who "were assailed as irrelevant by <a href="/wiki/Counterculture_of_the_1960s" title="Counterculture of the 1960s">student activists in the 1960s</a> and subjected to '<a href="/wiki/Politically_correct" class="mw-redirect" title="Politically correct">politically correct</a>' attack in later decades."<a href="#cite_note-word-gems-2">[2]</a> His thought evolved toward the correction of what he considered "philosophical mistakes", as reflected in his 1985 book <a href="/w/index.php?title=Ten_Philosophical_Mistakes:_Basic_Errors_in_Modern_Thought&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors in Modern Thought (page does not exist)">Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors in Modern Thought</a>.<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> In Adler's view, these errors were introduced by <a href="/wiki/Descartes" class="mw-redirect" title="Descartes">Descartes</a> on the continent and by Thomas Hobbes and <a href="/wiki/David_Hume" title="David Hume">David Hume</a> in Britain, and were caused by a "culpable ignorance" about Aristotle by those who rejected the conclusions of dogmatic philosophy without acknowledging its sound classical premises. These modern errors were compounded and perpetuated, according to Adler, by <a href="/wiki/Kant" class="mw-redirect" title="Kant">Kant</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Idealism" title="Idealism">idealists</a> and <a href="/wiki/Existentialism" title="Existentialism">existentialists</a> on the one side, and by <a href="/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill" title="John Stuart Mill">John Stuart Mill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham" title="Jeremy Bentham">Jeremy Bentham</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bertrand_Russell" title="Bertrand Russell">Bertrand Russell</a> and the English <a href="/wiki/Analytic_philosophy" title="Analytic philosophy">analytic tradition</a> on the other. Adler held that he corrected these mistakes with reference to insights and distinctions drawn from the <a href="/wiki/Aristotelianism" title="Aristotelianism">Aristotelian</a> tradition. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_York_City">New York City</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: New York City" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Adler was born in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, New York City, on December 28, 1902, to Jewish immigrants from Germany: Clarissa (Manheim), a schoolteacher, and Ignatz Adler, a jewelry salesman.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> He dropped out of school at age 14 to become a <a href="/wiki/Copy_boy" title="Copy boy">copy boy</a> for <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Sun" title="The New York Sun">The New York Sun</a>, with the ultimate aspiration of becoming a journalist.<a href="#cite_note-McInerny-6">[6]</a> Adler soon returned to school to take writing classes at night, where he discovered the <a href="/wiki/Western_philosophy" title="Western philosophy">western philosophical tradition</a>. After his early schooling and work, he went on to study at <a href="/wiki/Columbia_University" title="Columbia University">Columbia University</a> and contributed to the student literary magazine, The Morningside, a poem "Choice" (in 1922 when Charles A. Wagner<a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a> was editor-in-chief and <a href="/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers" title="Whittaker Chambers">Whittaker Chambers</a> an associate editor).<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> Though he refused to take the required swimming test for a bachelor's degree (a matter that was rectified when Columbia gave him an honorary degree in 1983), he stayed at the university and eventually received an instructorship and finally a doctorate in <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a>.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a> While at Columbia University, Adler wrote his first book: Dialectic, published in 1927.<a href="#cite_note-Mortimer_Adler-10">[10]</a> Adler worked with <a href="/wiki/Scott_Buchanan" title="Scott Buchanan">Scott Buchanan</a> at the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Institute" title="People's Institute">People's Institute</a> and then for many years on their respective <a href="/wiki/Great_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Great books">Great Books</a> efforts. (Buchanan was the founder of the Great Books program at <a href="/wiki/St._John%27s_College_(Annapolis/Santa_Fe)" title="St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)">St. John's College</a>).<a href="#cite_note-Adler-11">[11]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Chicago">Chicago</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Chicago" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> In 1930, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Maynard_Hutchins" title="Robert Maynard Hutchins">Robert Hutchins</a>, the newly appointed president of the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a>, whom Adler had befriended some years earlier, arranged for <a href="/wiki/University_of_Chicago_Law_School" title="University of Chicago Law School">Chicago's law school</a> to hire him as a professor of the <a href="/wiki/Philosophy_of_law" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy of law">philosophy of law</a>. The philosophers at Chicago (who included <a href="/wiki/James_Hayden_Tufts" title="James Hayden Tufts">James H. Tufts</a>, <a href="/wiki/E.A._Burtt" class="mw-redirect" title="E.A. Burtt">E. A. Burtt</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Herbert_Mead" title="George Herbert Mead">George H. Mead</a>) had "entertained grave doubts as to Dr. Adler's competence in the field [of philosophy]"<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> and resisted Adler's appointment to the university's Department of Philosophy.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> Adler was the first "non-lawyer" to join the law school faculty.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> After the Great Books seminar inspired Chicago businessman and university trustee <a href="/wiki/Walter_Paepcke" title="Walter Paepcke">Walter Paepcke</a> to found the <a href="/wiki/Aspen_Institute" title="Aspen Institute">Aspen Institute</a>, Adler taught philosophy to business executives there.<a href="#cite_note-Mortimer_Adler-10">[10]</a><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Popular_appeal">Popular appeal</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Popular appeal" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> Adler long strove to bring philosophy to <a href="/wiki/Commoner" title="Commoner">the masses</a>, and some of his works (such as <a href="/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book" title="How to Read a Book">How to Read a Book</a>) became popular bestsellers. He was also an advocate of <a href="/wiki/Economic_democracy" title="Economic democracy">economic democracy</a> and wrote an influential preface to <a href="/wiki/Louis_O._Kelso" title="Louis O. Kelso">Louis O. Kelso</a>'s <a href="/wiki/The_Capitalist_Manifesto_(1958_book)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Capitalist Manifesto (1958 book)">The Capitalist Manifesto</a>.<a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a> Adler was often aided in his thinking and writing by Arthur Rubin, an old friend from his Columbia undergraduate days. In his own words: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"> Unlike many of my contemporaries, I never write books for my fellow professors to read. I have no interest in the academic audience at all. I'm interested in Joe Doakes. A general audience can read any book I write – and they do.</blockquote> <a href="/wiki/Dwight_Macdonald" title="Dwight Macdonald">Dwight Macdonald</a> once criticized Adler's popular style by saying "Mr. Adler once wrote a book called How to Read a Book. He should now read a book called How to Write a Book."<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(2)"><h2 id="Encyclopedia_and_Educational_Reform">Encyclopedia and Educational Reform</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Encyclopedia and Educational Reform" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-2 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-2"> Adler and Hutchins went on to found the <a href="/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World" title="Great Books of the Western World">Great Books of the Western World</a> program and the <a href="/wiki/Great_Books_Foundation" title="Great Books Foundation">Great Books Foundation</a>. In 1952, Adler founded and served as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research. He also served on the Board of Editors of <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica" title="Encyclopædia Britannica">Encyclopædia Britannica</a>, compiled its <a href="/wiki/A_Syntopicon" title="A Syntopicon">Syntopicon</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Prop%C3%A6dia" title="Propædia">Propaedia</a>, and succeeded Hutchins as its chairman from 1974. As the director of editorial planning for the fifteenth edition of Britannica from 1965, he was instrumental in the major reorganization of knowledge embodied in that edition.<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> He introduced the <a href="/wiki/Paideia_Proposal" title="Paideia Proposal">Paideia Proposal</a> which resulted in his founding the Paideia Program, a grade school curriculum centered around guided reading and discussion of difficult works (as judged for each grade). With Max Weismann, he founded the Center for the Study of the Great Ideas in 1990 in Chicago. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Great_books_of_the_Western_canon">Great books of the Western canon</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Great books of the Western canon" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <div class="excerpt-block"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1066933788">.mw-parser-output .excerpt-hat .mw-editsection-like{font-style:normal}</style><div class="excerpt"> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Great_Books.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><noscript><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Great_Books.jpg/300px-Great_Books.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="199" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 300px;height: 199px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Great_Books.jpg/300px-Great_Books.jpg" data-width="300" data-height="199" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Great_Books.jpg/450px-Great_Books.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Great_Books.jpg/600px-Great_Books.jpg 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> </a><figcaption>The Great Books (second edition)</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World" title="Great Books of the Western World">Great Books of the Western World</a> is a series of books originally published in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> in 1952, by <a href="/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica,_Inc." title="Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.">Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.</a>, to present the <a href="/wiki/Great_books" class="mw-redirect" title="Great books">great books</a> in 54 volumes. The original editors had three criteria for including a book in the series drawn from <a href="/wiki/Western_Civilization" class="mw-redirect" title="Western Civilization">Western Civilization</a>: the book must be relevant to contemporary matters, and not only important in its historical context; it must be rewarding to re-read repeatedly with respect to <a href="/wiki/Liberal_education" title="Liberal education">liberal education</a>; and it must be a part of "the <a href="/wiki/Great_Conversation" title="Great Conversation">great conversation</a> about the great ideas", relevant to at least 25 of the 102 "Great Ideas" as identified by the editor of the series's comprehensive index, the <a href="/wiki/Syntopicon" class="mw-redirect" title="Syntopicon">Syntopicon</a>, to which they belonged. The books were chosen not on the basis of ethnic and cultural inclusiveness (historical influence being seen as sufficient for inclusion), nor on whether the editors agreed with the authors' views.<a href="#cite_note-Great_Books_of_the_Western_World_adler-20">[20]</a> A second edition was published in 1990, in 60 volumes. Some translations were updated; some works were removed; and there were additions from the 20th century, in six new volumes.</div></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(3)"><h2 id="Religion_and_theology">Religion and theology</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Religion and theology" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-3 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-3"> Adler was born into a <a href="/wiki/Irreligion" title="Irreligion">nonobservant</a> Jewish family. In his early twenties, he discovered <a href="/wiki/St._Thomas_Aquinas" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Thomas Aquinas">St. Thomas Aquinas</a>, and in particular the <a href="/wiki/Summa_Theologica" title="Summa Theologica">Summa Theologica</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Redpath-21">[21]</a> Many years later, he wrote that its "intellectual austerity, integrity, precision and brilliance ... put the study of theology highest among all of my philosophical interests."<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> An enthusiastic <a href="/wiki/Thomist" class="mw-redirect" title="Thomist">Thomist</a>, he was a frequent contributor to Catholic philosophical and educational journals, as well as a frequent speaker at Catholic institutions, so much so that some assumed he was a convert to Catholicism. But that was reserved for later.<a href="#cite_note-Redpath-21">[21]</a> In 1940, <a href="/wiki/James_T._Farrell" title="James T. Farrell">James T. Farrell</a> called Adler "the leading American <a href="/wiki/Fellow-traveller" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow-traveller">fellow-traveller</a> of the Roman Catholic Church." What was true for Adler, Farrell said, was what was "postulated in the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church," and he "sang the same tune" as avowed Catholic philosophers like <a href="/wiki/%C3%89tienne_Gilson" title="Étienne Gilson">Étienne Gilson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jacques_Maritain" title="Jacques Maritain">Jacques Maritain</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Martin_D%27Arcy" title="Martin D'Arcy">Martin D'Arcy</a>. He also greatly admired <a href="/wiki/Henri_Bergson" title="Henri Bergson">Henri Bergson</a>, the French Jewish philosopher and Nobel laureate, whose books the Catholic church had indexed as prohibited. Bergson refused to convert during the collaborationist Vichy regime, and despite the <a href="/wiki/Anti-semitic_laws" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-semitic laws">Statute on Jews</a> he instead restated his previous views and was thus stripped of all his previous posts and honors.<a href="#cite_note-Redpath-21">[21]</a> Farrell attributed Adler's delay in joining the Church to his being among those Christians who "wanted their cake and ... wanted to eat it too" and compared him to the Emperor <a href="/wiki/Constantine_I" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine I">Constantine</a>, who waited until he was on his deathbed to formally become a Catholic.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> Adler took a long time to make up his mind about <a href="/wiki/Theology" title="Theology">theological</a> issues. When he wrote How to Think About God: A Guide for the Twentieth-Century Pagan in 1980, he claimed to consider himself the <a href="/wiki/Paganism" title="Paganism">pagan</a> of the book's subtitle. In volume 51 of the <a href="/wiki/Mars_Hill_Audio_Journal" class="mw-redirect" title="Mars Hill Audio Journal">Mars Hill Audio Journal</a> (2001), Ken Myers includes his 1980 interview with Adler, conducted after How to Think About God was published. Myers reminisces, "During that interview, I asked him why he had never embraced the Christian faith himself. He explained that while he had been profoundly influenced by a number of Christian thinkers during his life, ... there were moral – not intellectual – obstacles to his conversion. He didn't explain any further."<a href="#cite_note-BFP-24">[24]</a> Myers notes that Adler finally "surrendered to the <a href="/wiki/Hound_of_Heaven" class="mw-redirect" title="Hound of Heaven">Hound of Heaven</a>" and "made a confession of faith and was <a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">baptized</a>" as an Episcopalian in 1984, only a few years after that interview. Offering insight into Adler's conversion, Myers quotes him from a subsequent 1990 article in Christianity magazine: "My chief reason for choosing Christianity was because the mysteries were incomprehensible. What's the point of revelation if we could figure it out ourselves? If it were wholly comprehensible, then it would just be another philosophy."<a href="#cite_note-BFP-24">[24]</a> According to his friend <a href="/wiki/Deal_Hudson" class="mw-redirect" title="Deal Hudson">Deal Hudson</a>, Adler "had been attracted to Catholicism for many years" and "wanted to be a Roman Catholic, but issues like abortion and the resistance of his family and friends" kept him away. Many thought he was baptized as an Episcopalian rather than a Catholic solely because of his "wonderful – and ardently Episcopal – wife" Caroline. Hudson suggests it is no coincidence that it was only after her death in 1998 that he took the final step.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> In December 1999, in San Mateo, where he had moved to spend his last years, Adler was formally received into the Catholic Church by a long-time friend and admirer, Bishop <a href="/wiki/Pierre_DuMaine" title="Pierre DuMaine">Pierre DuMaine</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Redpath-21">[21]</a> "Finally," wrote another friend, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_McInerny" title="Ralph McInerny">Ralph McInerny</a>, "he became the Roman Catholic he had been training to be all his life".<a href="#cite_note-McInerny-6">[6]</a> Despite not being a Catholic for most of his life, on account of his lifelong participation in the <a href="/wiki/Neo-scholasticism" title="Neo-scholasticism">Neo-Thomist movement</a><a href="#cite_note-BFP-24">[24]</a> and his almost equally long membership in the <a href="/wiki/American_Catholic_Philosophical_Association" title="American Catholic Philosophical Association">American Catholic Philosophical Association</a>, this latter, according to McInerny<a href="#cite_note-McInerny-6">[6]</a> is willing to consider Adler "a Catholic philosopher". </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(4)"><h2 id="Philosophy">Philosophy</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Philosophy" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-4 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-4"> Adler referred to <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Nicomachean_Ethics" title="Nicomachean Ethics">Nicomachean Ethics</a> as the "ethics of <a href="/wiki/Common_sense" title="Common sense">common sense</a>" and also as "the only moral philosophy that is sound, practical, and undogmatic."<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Thus, it is the only ethical doctrine that answers all the questions that moral philosophy should and can attempt to answer, neither more nor less, and that has answers that are true by the standard of truth that is appropriate and applicable to <a href="/wiki/Norm_(philosophy)" title="Norm (philosophy)">normative</a> judgments. In contrast, Adler believed that other theories or doctrines try to answer more questions than they can or fewer than they should, and their answers are mixtures of truth and error, particularly the moral philosophy of <a href="/wiki/Immanuel_Kant" title="Immanuel Kant">Immanuel Kant</a>. Adler was a self-proclaimed "moderate <a href="/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_dualism" title="Mind–body dualism">dualist</a>" and viewed the positions of <a href="/wiki/Psychophysics" title="Psychophysics">psychophysical</a> <a href="/wiki/Property_dualism" title="Property dualism">dualism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Materialism" title="Materialism">materialistic</a> <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">monism</a> to be opposite sides of two extremes. Regarding dualism, he dismissed the extreme form of <a href="/wiki/Dualism_(philosophy_of_mind)" class="mw-redirect" title="Dualism (philosophy of mind)">dualism</a> that stemmed from such philosophers as <a href="/wiki/Plato" title="Plato">Plato</a> (<a href="/wiki/Physical_object" title="Physical object">body</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soul" title="Soul">soul</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Descartes" class="mw-redirect" title="Descartes">Descartes</a> (<a href="/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem" title="Mind–body problem">mind and matter</a>), as well as the theory of extreme <a href="/wiki/Monism" title="Monism">monism</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93brain_identity_theory" class="mw-redirect" title="Mind–brain identity theory">mind–brain identity theory</a>. After eliminating the extremes, Adler subscribed to a more moderate form of dualism. He believed that the brain is only a <a href="/wiki/Necessary_and_sufficient_condition" class="mw-redirect" title="Necessary and sufficient condition">necessary</a>, but not a <a href="/wiki/Sufficient" class="mw-redirect" title="Sufficient">sufficient</a>, condition for conceptual thought; that an "immaterial intellect" is also requisite as a condition;<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> and that the difference between human and animal behavior is a radical difference in kind. Adler defended this position against many challenges to dualistic theories. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Freedom_and_free_will">Freedom and free will</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Freedom and free will" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> The meanings of "<a href="/wiki/Freedom" title="Freedom">freedom</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Free_will" title="Free will">free will</a>" have been and are under debate, and the debate is confused because there is no generally accepted definition of either term.<a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a> Adler's "Institute for Philosophical Research" spent ten years studying the "idea of freedom" as the word was used by hundreds of authors who have discussed and disputed freedom.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdler1995137-31">[31]</a> The study was published in 1958 as Volume One of The Idea of Freedom, subtitled A Dialectical Examination of the Idea of Freedom with subsequent comments in Adler's Philosophical Dictionary. Adler's study concluded that a delineation of three kinds of freedom – circumstantial, natural, and acquired – is necessary for clarity on the subject.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdler1958127,_135,_149-32">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdler1995137%E2%80%93138-33">[33]</a> <ol><li>"Circumstantial freedom" denotes "freedom from coercion or restraint."</li> <li>"Natural freedom" denotes "freedom of a free will" or "free choice." It is the freedom to determine one's own decisions or plans. This freedom exists in everyone inherently, regardless of circumstances or state of mind.</li> <li>"Acquired freedom" is the freedom "to will as we ought to will" and, thus, "to live as [one] ought to live." This freedom is not inherent: it must be acquired by a change whereby a person gains qualities as "good, wise, virtuous, etc."<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdler1958127,_135,_149-32">[32]</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Religion" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> As Adler's interest in religion and theology increased, he made references to the Bible and the need to test articles of faith for compatibility with the conclusions of the science of nature and of philosophers.<a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a> In his 1981 book How to Think About God, Adler attempts to demonstrate God as the <a href="/wiki/Ex_nihilo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ex nihilo">exnihilator</a> (the creator of something from nothing).<a href="#cite_note-word-gems-2">[2]</a> Adler stressed that even with this conclusion, <a href="/wiki/God%27s_existence" class="mw-redirect" title="God's existence">God's existence</a> cannot be proven or demonstrated, but only established as true <a href="/wiki/Reasonable_doubt" title="Reasonable doubt">beyond a reasonable doubt</a>. However, in a recent re-review of the argument, John Cramer concluded that recent developments in <a href="/wiki/Cosmology" title="Cosmology">cosmology</a> appear to converge with and support Adler's argument, and that in light of such theories as the <a href="/wiki/Multiverse" title="Multiverse">multiverse</a>, the argument is no worse for wear and may, indeed, now be judged somewhat more probable than it was originally.<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a> Adler believed that, if theology and religion are living things, there is nothing intrinsically wrong about efforts to modernize them. They must be open to change and growth like everything else. Furthermore, there is no reason to be surprised when discussions such as those about the "death of God" – a concept drawn from <a href="/wiki/Friedrich_Nietzsche" title="Friedrich Nietzsche">Friedrich Nietzsche</a> – stir popular excitement as they did in the recent past and could do so again today. According to Adler, of all the great ideas, the idea of God has always been and continues to be the one that evokes the greatest concern among the widest group of men and women. However, he was opposed to the idea of converting <a href="/wiki/Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a> into a new form of religion or theology. </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(5)"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Personal life" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-5 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-5"> Mortimer Adler was married twice and had four children.<a href="#cite_note-NYT_Obit-36">[36]</a> He married Helen Boynton in 1927. Together they adopted two children, Mark and Michael, in 1938 and 1940, respectively. They divorced in 1960. In 1963, Adler married Caroline Pring, his junior by thirty-four years; they had two children, Douglas and Philip.<a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-:0-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(6)"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Awards" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-6 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-6"> <ul><li>1985, Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement">American Academy of Achievement</a><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></li> <li>1993, Aspen Hall of Fame<a href="#cite_note-42">[42]</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading 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Inquiry into the Logical, Legal, and Empirical Aspects of the Law of Evidence (1931, with Jerome Michael)</li> <li>Diagrammatics (1932, with <a href="/wiki/Maude_Hutchins" title="Maude Hutchins">Maude Phelps Hutchins</a>)</li> <li>Crime, Law and Social Science (1933, with Jerome Michael)</li> <li>Art and Prudence: A Study in Practical Philosophy (1937)</li> <li>What Man Has Made of Man: A Study of the Consequences of Platonism and Positivism in Psychology (1937)<a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></li> <li>St. Thomas and the Gentiles (1938)</li> <li>The Philosophy and Science of Man: A Collection of Texts as a Foundation for Ethics and Politics (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book" title="How to Read a Book">How to Read a Book: The Art of Getting a Liberal Education</a> (1940), 1966 edition subtitled A Guide to Reading the Great Books, 1972 revised edition with <a href="/wiki/Charles_Van_Doren" title="Charles Van Doren">Charles Van Doren</a>, The Classic Guide to Intelligent 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.cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-21209-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-21209-5">0-671-21209-5</a></li> <li>Problems for Thomists: The Problem of Species (1940)</li> <li>A Dialectic of Morals: Towards the Foundations of Political Philosophy (1941)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.maebrussell.com/Articles%20and%20Notes/How%20To%20Mark%20A%20Book.html">"How to Mark a Book"</a>. The Saturday Review of Literature. July 6, 1940.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Saturday+Review+of+Literature&rft.atitle=How+to+Mark+a+Book&rft.date=1940-07-06&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.maebrussell.com%2FArticles%2520and%2520Notes%2FHow%2520To%2520Mark%2520A%2520Book.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></li> <li>How to Think About War and Peace (1944)</li> <li>The Revolution in Education (1944, with <a href="/wiki/Milton_Mayer" title="Milton Mayer">Milton Mayer</a>)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdler1947" class="citation book cs1">Adler, Mortimer J. (1947). Heywood, Robert B. (ed.). The Works of the Mind: The Philosopher. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/752682744">752682744</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Works+of+the+Mind%3A+The+Philosopher&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=1947&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F752682744&rft.aulast=Adler&rft.aufirst=Mortimer+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdler1958" class="citation cs2">Adler, Mortimer J. (1958), The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Idea of Freedom, vol. 1, Doubleday</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Idea+of+Freedom%3A+A+Dialectical+Examination+of+the+Idea+of+Freedom&rft.pub=Doubleday&rft.date=1958&rft.aulast=Adler&rft.aufirst=Mortimer+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988">.</li> <li>The Capitalist Manifesto (1958, with <a href="/wiki/Louis_O._Kelso" title="Louis O. Kelso">Louis O. Kelso</a>) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8371-8210-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-8371-8210-7">0-8371-8210-7</a></li> <li>The New Capitalists: A Proposal to Free Economic Growth from the Slavery of Savings (1961, with Louis O. Kelso)</li> <li>The Idea of Freedom: A Dialectical Examination of the Controversies about Freedom (1961)</li> <li>Great Ideas from the Great Books (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Conditions_of_Philosophy" title="The Conditions of Philosophy">The Conditions of Philosophy</a>: Its Checkered Past, Its Present Disorder, and Its Future Promise (1965)</li> <li>The Difference of Man and the Difference It Makes (1967)</li> <li>The Time of Our Lives: The Ethics of Common Sense (1970)</li> <li>The Common Sense of Politics (1971)</li> <li>The American Testament (1975, with William Gorman)</li> <li>Some Questions About Language: A Theory of Human Discourse and Its Objects (1976)</li> <li>Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography (1977)</li> <li>Reforming Education: The Schooling of a People and Their Education Beyond Schooling (1977, edited by Geraldine Van Doren)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aristotle_for_Everybody" title="Aristotle for Everybody">Aristotle for Everybody</a>: Difficult Thought Made Easy (1978) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-83823-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-83823-0">0-684-83823-0</a></li> <li>How to Think About God: A Guide for the 20th-Century Pagan (1980) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-016022-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-016022-4">0-02-016022-4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Syntopicon#Six_Great_Ideas" title="A Syntopicon">Six Great Ideas</a>: Truth–Goodness–Beauty–Liberty–Equality–Justice (1981) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-072020-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-072020-3">0-02-072020-3</a></li> <li>The Angels and Us (1982)</li> <li>The Paideia Proposal: An Educational Manifesto (1982) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-684-84188-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-684-84188-6">0-684-84188-6</a></li> <li>How to Speak / How to Listen (1983) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-500570-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-500570-7">0-02-500570-7</a></li> <li>Paideia Problems and Possibilities: A Consideration of Questions Raised by The Paideia Proposal (1983)</li> <li>A Vision of the Future: Twelve Ideas for a Better Life and a Better Society (1984) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-500280-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-500280-5">0-02-500280-5</a></li> <li>The Paideia Program: An Educational Syllabus (1984, with Members of the Paideia Group) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-013040-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-013040-6">0-02-013040-6</a></li> <li>Ten Philosophical Mistakes: Basic Errors In Modern Thought – How they came about, their consequences, and how to avoid them. (1985) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-500330-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-500330-5">0-02-500330-5</a></li> <li>A Guidebook to Learning: For a Lifelong Pursuit of Wisdom (1986)</li> <li>We Hold These Truths: Understanding the Ideas and Ideals of the Constitution (1987). <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-500370-4" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-500370-4">0-02-500370-4</a></li> <li>Reforming Education: The Opening of the American Mind (1988, edited by Geraldine Van Doren)</li> <li>Intellect: Mind Over Matter (1990)</li> <li>Truth in Religion: The Plurality of Religions and the Unity of Truth (1990) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-064140-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-064140-0">0-02-064140-0</a></li> <li>Haves Without Have-Nots: Essays for the 21st Century on Democracy and Socialism (1991) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-500561-8" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-500561-8">0-02-500561-8</a></li> <li>Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough (1991)</li> <li>A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher At Large (1992)</li> <li>The Great Ideas: A Lexicon of Western Thought (1992)</li> <li>Natural Theology, Chance, and God (The Great Ideas Today, 1992)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdler1993" class="citation book cs1">Adler, Mortimer J. (1993). The Four Dimensions of Philosophy: Metaphysical, Moral, Objective, Categorical. Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-02-500574-X" title="Special:BookSources/0-02-500574-X"><bdi>0-02-500574-X</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Four+Dimensions+of+Philosophy%3A+Metaphysical%2C+Moral%2C+Objective%2C+Categorical&rft.pub=Macmillan&rft.date=1993&rft.isbn=0-02-500574-X&rft.aulast=Adler&rft.aufirst=Mortimer+J.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Art, the Arts, and the Great Ideas (1994)</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAdler1995" class="citation cs2">Philosophical Dictionary: 125 Key Terms for the Philosopher's Lexicon, Touchstone, 1995</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Philosophical+Dictionary%3A+125+Key+Terms+for+the+Philosopher%27s+Lexicon&rft.pub=Touchstone&rft.date=1995&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988">.</li> <li>How to Think About The Great Ideas (2000) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8126-9412-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8126-9412-0">0-8126-9412-0</a></li> <li>How to Prove There Is a God (2011) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8126-9689-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8126-9689-9">978-0-8126-9689-9</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anthologies,_collections_and_surveys_edited_by_Adler">Anthologies, collections and surveys edited by Adler</h3> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Anthologies, collections and surveys edited by Adler" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div> <ul><li>Scholasticism and Politics (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_World" title="Great Books of the Western World">Great Books of the Western World</a> (1952, 52 volumes), 2nd edition 1990, 60 volumes</li> <li><a href="/wiki/A_Syntopicon:_An_Index_to_The_Great_Ideas" class="mw-redirect" title="A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas">A Syntopicon: An Index to The Great Ideas</a> (1952, 2 volumes), 2nd edition 1990</li> <li>The Great Ideas Program (1959–1963, 10 volumes), with Peter Wolff, Seymour Cain, and V.J. McGill <a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-46">[46]</a></li> <li>The Great Ideas Today (1961–77, 17 volumes), with Robert Hutchins, 1978–99, 21 volumes</li> <li>The Negro in American History (1969, 3 volumes), with Charles Van Doren</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gateway_to_the_Great_Books" title="Gateway to the Great Books">Gateway to the Great Books</a> (1963, 10 volumes), with Robert Hutchins</li> <li>The Annals of America (1968, 21 volumes)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prop%C3%A6dia" title="Propædia">Propædia</a>: Outline of Knowledge and Guide to The New Encyclopædia Britannica 15th Edition (1974, 30 volumes)</li> <li>Great Treasury of Western Thought (1977, with Charles Van Doren) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0412449900" title="Special:BookSources/0412449900">0412449900</a></li></ul> </div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(8)"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-8 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-8"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_philosophers" title="List of American philosophers">List of American philosophers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Educational_perennialism" title="Educational perennialism">Educational perennialism</a></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(9)"><h2 id="References">References</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: References" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-9 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-9"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141210175448/http://www.thegreatideas.org/adlerbio_short.html">"Biographical Sketch & Partial Bibliography of Dr. Mortimer J. 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[...] This set was published between 1959 and 1963 due to demand for an organized program of reading that was lacking in the Great Books set itself. [...] The editors prepared this set "to provide a way into the Great Books for readers who would like help in their first reading of them." Each volume contains fifteen readings that are designed to take a typical adult approximately two weeks to read, understand, and contemplate. Introductory material is provided for each reading and elements that might pose difficulties are highlighted. This material does not attempt to "spoon feed" the reader but does provide useful information to get started. [...] Each reading is supposed to account for two weeks since the goal is not to speed read these selections but to really read them, perhaps more than once, and then to write about them using prompts that the editors provide.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=greatbooksjournal.com&rft.atitle=Reading+Plans&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greatbooksjournal.com%2Fp%2Freading-plans&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(10)"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Further reading" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-10 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-10"> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMoorhead,_Hugh1964" class="citation book cs1">Moorhead, Hugh (1964). The Great Books Movement (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Chicago. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/6060691">6060691</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Great+Books+Movement+%28Ph.D.+dissertation%29&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago&rft.date=1964&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F6060691&rft.au=Moorhead%2C+Hugh&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKass,_Amy_A.1973" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Amy_A._Kass" class="mw-redirect" title="Amy A. Kass">Kass, Amy A.</a> (1973). Radical Conservatives for a Liberal Education. PhD dissertation.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Radical+Conservatives+for+a+Liberal+Education&rft.pub=PhD+dissertation&rft.date=1973&rft.au=Kass%2C+Amy+A.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAshmore,_Harry1989" class="citation book cs1">Ashmore, Harry (1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780316053969">Unseasonable Truths: The Life of Robert Maynard Hutchins</a>. New York: Little Brown. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780316053969" title="Special:BookSources/9780316053969"><bdi>9780316053969</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Unseasonable+Truths%3A+The+Life+of+Robert+Maynard+Hutchins&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Little+Brown&rft.date=1989&rft.isbn=9780316053969&rft.au=Ashmore%2C+Harry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780316053969&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMcNeill,_William1991" class="citation book cs1">McNeill, William (1991). Hutchins' University: A Memoir of the University of Chicago 1929–50. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hutchins%27+University%3A+A+Memoir+of+the+University+of+Chicago+1929%E2%80%9350&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago+Press&rft.date=1991&rft.au=McNeill%2C+William&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDzuback,_Mary_Ann1991" class="citation book cs1">Dzuback, Mary Ann (1991). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/robertmhutchinsp00dzub">Robert M. Hutchins: Portrait of an Educator</a>. Chicago: University of Chicago. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780226177106" title="Special:BookSources/9780226177106"><bdi>9780226177106</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Robert+M.+Hutchins%3A+Portrait+of+an+Educator&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=University+of+Chicago&rft.date=1991&rft.isbn=9780226177106&rft.au=Dzuback%2C+Mary+Ann&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frobertmhutchinsp00dzub&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRubin,_Joan_Shelley1992" class="citation book cs1">Rubin, Joan Shelley (1992). The Making of Middlebrow Culture (Ph.D. dissertation). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Making+of+Middlebrow+Culture+%28Ph.D.+dissertation%29&rft.place=Chapel+Hill&rft.pub=University+of+North+Carolina+Press&rft.date=1992&rft.au=Rubin%2C+Joan+Shelley&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCrockett,_Jr.Bennie_R.2000" class="citation book cs1">Crockett, Jr.; Bennie R. (2000). Mortimer J. Adler: An Analysis and Critique of His Eclectic Epistemology (Ph.D. dissertation). University of Wales, Lampeter, UK.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Mortimer+J.+Adler%3A+An+Analysis+and+Critique+of+His+Eclectic+Epistemology+%28Ph.D.+dissertation%29&rft.pub=University+of+Wales%2C+Lampeter%2C+UK&rft.date=2000&rft.au=Crockett%2C+Jr.&rft.au=Bennie+R.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLacy,_Tim2006" class="citation book cs1">Lacy, Tim (2006). Making a Democratic Culture: The Great Books Idea, Mortimer J. Adler, and Twentieth-Century America (Ph.D. dissertation). Chicago: Loyola University.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Making+a+Democratic+Culture%3A+The+Great+Books+Idea%2C+Mortimer+J.+Adler%2C+and+Twentieth-Century+America+%28Ph.D.+dissertation%29&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=Loyola+University&rft.date=2006&rft.au=Lacy%2C+Tim&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBeam,_Alex2008" class="citation book cs1">Beam, Alex (2008). A Great Idea at the Time: The Rise, Fall, and Curious Afterlife of the Great Books. New York: Public Affairs.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Great+Idea+at+the+Time%3A+The+Rise%2C+Fall%2C+and+Curious+Afterlife+of+the+Great+Books&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Public+Affairs&rft.date=2008&rft.au=Beam%2C+Alex&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLacy2013" class="citation book cs1">Lacy, Tim. (2013). The Dream of a Democratic Culture: Mortimer J. Adler and the Great Books Idea. Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781137042620" title="Special:BookSources/9781137042620"><bdi>9781137042620</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Dream+of+a+Democratic+Culture%3A+Mortimer+J.+Adler+and+the+Great+Books+Idea&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.series=Palgrave+Studies+in+Cultural+and+Intellectual+History&rft.pub=Palgrave+Macmillan&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=9781137042620&rft.aulast=Lacy&rft.aufirst=Tim.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMortimer+J.+Adler" class="Z3988"></li></ul> </section><div class="mw-heading mw-heading2 section-heading" onclick="mfTempOpenSection(11)"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2> <a role="button" href="/w/index.php?title=Mortimer_J._Adler&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: External links" class="cdx-button cdx-button--size-large cdx-button--fake-button cdx-button--fake-button--enabled cdx-button--icon-only cdx-button--weight-quiet "> edit </a> </div><section class="mf-section-11 collapsible-block" id="mf-section-11"> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1250146164">.mw-parser-output .sister-box .side-box-abovebelow{padding:0.75em 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sister-box .side-box-abovebelow>b{display:block}.mw-parser-output .sister-box .side-box-text>ul{border-top:1px solid #aaa;padding:0.75em 0;width:217px;margin:0 auto}.mw-parser-output .sister-box .side-box-text>ul>li{min-height:31px}.mw-parser-output .sister-logo{display:inline-block;width:31px;line-height:31px;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .sister-link{display:inline-block;margin-left:4px;width:182px;vertical-align:middle}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div role="navigation" aria-labelledby="sister-projects" class="side-box metadata side-box-right sister-box sistersitebox plainlinks"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"> <div class="side-box-abovebelow"> Mortimer J. Adler at Wikipedia's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikimedia_sister_projects" title="Wikipedia:Wikimedia sister projects">sister projects</a></div> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-text plainlist"><ul><li><noscript><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/20px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="27" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376"></noscript><span class="lazy-image-placeholder" style="width: 20px;height: 27px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/20px-Commons-logo.svg.png" data-alt="" data-width="20" data-height="27" data-srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/40px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-class="mw-file-element"> <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Mortimer_J._Adler" class="extiw" title="c:Category:Mortimer J. 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Adler</a> at <a href="/wiki/IMDb_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="IMDb (identifier)">IMDb</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/person/?16112">Appearances</a> on <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00003">Adler papers</a> at <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/adler_mj.htm">Adler papers</a> at <a href="/wiki/Syracuse_University" title="Syracuse University">Syracuse University</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.ADLERM">Guide to the Mortimer J. Adler Papers 1914–1995</a> at the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/">University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center</a></li> <li>Many of the <a href="/wiki/National_Educational_Television" title="National Educational Television">National Educational Television</a> program "Great Ideas" in which he featured around 1957 are available online in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://americanarchive.org">American Archive of Public Broadcasting</a>. Fifty-two edited transcripts of them are available in the book How to Think About The Great Ideas (2000) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8126-9412-0" title="Special:BookSources/0-8126-9412-0">0-8126-9412-0</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15878coll90/id/7/rec/50">Interview with Mortimer J. Adler (1958)</a> from The <a href="/wiki/Mike_Wallace" title="Mike Wallace">Mike Wallace</a> Interview Collection in <a href="/wiki/Harry_Ransom_Center" title="Harry Ransom Center">Harry Ransom Center</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Texas_at_Austin" title="University of Texas at Austin">University of Texas at Austin</a></li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output 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data-title="مورتيمر أدلر" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler" title="Mortimer J. Adler – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Mortimer J. Adler" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Jerome_Adler" title="Mortimer Jerome Adler – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Mortimer Jerome Adler" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%DB%8C%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1" title="مورتیمر ادلر – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="مورتیمر ادلر" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler" title="Mortimer J. Adler – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Mortimer J. 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Adler – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Mortimer J. Adler" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%A8_%D7%92%27._%D7%90%D7%93%D7%9C%D7%A8" title="מורטימר ג'. אדלר – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="מורטימר ג'. אדלר" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler" title="Mortimer J. Adler – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Mortimer J. Adler" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%A2%E1%83%98%E1%83%9B%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0_%E1%83%90%E1%83%93%E1%83%9A%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98" title="მორტიმერ ადლერი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მორტიმერ ადლერი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A%D9%85%D8%B1_%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%B1" title="مورتيمر ادلر – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="مورتيمر ادلر" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC" title="モーティマー・アドラー – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="モーティマー・アドラー" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%80,_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80" title="Адлер, Мортимер – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Адлер, Мортимер" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler" title="Mortimer J. Adler – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Mortimer J. Adler" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_Adler" title="Mortimer Adler – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Mortimer Adler" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortimer_J._Adler" title="Mortimer J. 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