Book: ‘Great Ideas from the Great Books’ by Mortimer J. Adler – March 24th, 2019
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Mar.24, 2019, under Books
Great Ideas from the Great Books by Mortimer J. Adler
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I started this book with the intent of picking it up every so often and get a dose of Adler. That’s what I did. Trouble was as I picked it up and put it down,the book got a away from me for months. I couldn’t find it and I was busy. Finally it was found and I was back to picking up and putting down. In the past couple of weeks I realized I need to finish this thing! i have most of the rest of the Adler library. Best finish this and get on to the next book. So I did.
This is a wonderful collection of columns covering a slew of issues in a question and answer fashion. The book is like a Q & A version of Adler’s ‘Six Great Ideas’. As usual, Adler’s writing is crisp and clear. The answers also balanced with various views. Amazing to realize that Adler crafted his answers into such a short column. I wonder how much work was done in editing? Must have been really tough to make the column inch each week. He surely wrote far more than seen. Hundreds of years of philosophical thought boiled into a column.
That’s the other amazing thing to realize, this column would not survive in a newspaper today. Today’s crowd is lacking the intellect to read writings like this weekly.
Bottom line: i strongly recommend this book. 10 out of 10 points.
View all my reviews
Leave a Reply
Linked In
Networked Blogs
Web Stat
