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 ...

Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler of the University of Chicago, 47, is a bounding dynamo of a man who is apt to have, “in my more paranoiac moments,” rather extravagant visions. “Imagine Carnegie Hall,” ...

As a faculty member at the University of Chicago several decades ago, Mortimer J. Adler helped develop the distinctive “Great Books” approach to education. Adler died on June 28 at his home in San ...

THE DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES by Mortimer J. Adler. 395 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $7.95. It is 108 years since Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species exploded in the midst ...

The Paideia School represents the new paradigm for the public schools. Mortimer J. Adler and the Paideia Group wrote three books outlining the principles of the new paradigm: the proposal, the program ...

The Smithsonian Institution's Marc Pachter interviews Mortimer J. Adler, philosopher, professor, founder of the Great Books Foundation, as part of the education series, Living Self-Portraits, at the ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Mortimer J. Adler, a high school dropout who went on to become an educational theorist, a father of the Great Books program and the world's highest paid philosopher, died Thursday at ...

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