Adler passionately believes that most people, even those with college degrees, have not really acquired the skills necessary to explore the world of ideas. To document his argument that people are not ...

At the memorial service, one speaker remembered Mortimer Adler’s “wonderful, elfinlike face.” Another talked of his attachment to angels, those “messengers of God” who were, to him, a kind of fantasy ...

For those wishing to read to the end of Mortimer Adler’s book (previously discussed here), his main theme is that the power of conceptual human thought is unduplicated anywhere else in the Universe.

Mortimer J. Adler, the iconoclastic encyclopedist and progenitor of the “Great Books” collection of notable writers and thinkers, died Thursday at his home in San Mateo. He was 98. The former longtime ...

ON JUNE 28, MORTIMER J. ADLER, propagandist for the reading of great books, indexer extraordinaire, and the world’s highest-salaried philosopher, died at the age of ninety-eight. I worked for Mortimer ...

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Mortimer Adler built a publishing empire around the Great Books of the Western World. Scott McLemee interviews an author who has mapped its terrain. Originally published by Encyclopedia Britannica in ...