Mortimer J. Adler

1. The Great Books and the Great Ideas The goods of the body are food and drink, sleep, clothing, and shelter. These are goods we need because they are indispensable for sustaining life. To be without them in sufficient quantity is a life-threatening deprivation. To possess them is not only...

Preface When the idea for this book first occurred to me, I thought of entitling it The Children's Aristotle or Aristotle for Children, But those titles would not have accurately conveyed the audience for whom this simple, easy-to-read exposition of Aristotle's common-sense philosophy is...