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"Fifteen years ago, when I was only seventy-five years old, I wrote my autobiography prematurely. . . ". So begins the second autobiography of Mortimer Adler, the Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Among other things, he discusses the enormously controversial second edition of Great Books of the Western World and his involvement with the Aspen Institute.

First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place when human beings enter into dispute, or when they carry on in reflection the polemical consideration of some theory or idea. This text is an attempt to examine the circumstances and conditions of controversy in order to understand what are its inescapable limitations, its intellectual traits and values.

A discussion of the ideas behind the U.S. Constitution and how they have been interpreted both in the past and at present.

The author describes his conversion at eighty-four to Christianity and his editorial oversight of the controversial second edition of "Great Books of the Western World"

Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many.

Do musical compositions, paintings, or ballets have anything at all to say about the great ideas? This latest contribution by prolific philospher Mortimer J. Adler traces the historical permutations of pivotal words like art, idea, and significance. Readers ultimately discover how the great ideas are related to the arts.