Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a «philosopher for everyman.» In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as «What is love?», «How do we decide the right thing to do?», and, «What does it mean to be good?» Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of...
One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler’s illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful.Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God’s existence, especially Aquinas’s Five Ways, and found shortcomings in all of them, as conventionally understood. But he thought that some of them contained ideas which, if properly developed, could be improved, and he continued to search for...
