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Aristoteles (384-322 v. Chr.) lehrte Alexander den Großen die Logik und durch seine philosophischen Werke jeden Philosophen seither, von Mark Aurel über Thomas von Aquin bis zu Mortimer J. Adler. Jetzt lehrt Adler - einst Vorstandsvorsitzender der renommierten Encyclopedia Britannica - die Welt die aristotelische Logik, indem er Aristoteles' Erkenntnisse in einer aktuellen, wunderbar verständlichen Weise präsentiert. Er bringt Aristoteles' Wer...

Das "Schlüsselwerk zur Kultur" (The New Yorker). Sie lernen die wichtigsten Lesetechniken, vom systematischen Querlesen und prüfenden Lesen bis hin zum Schnelllesen und analytischen Lesen. Mit etwas Übung schließlich meistern Sie den schwarzen Gürtel der Lesekunst: das vergleichende oder syntopische Lesen. Mit einer Leseliste, Leseübungen und einem Regelsystem, mit dem Sie Ihre Lesefertigkeit testen können. 385 Seiten. Fester Einband..

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Adler lays the groundwork for a common-sense approach to the problem of making a good life and of evaluating that life in reference to the merits of our present society.

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The Paideia Program is based on the belief that the human species is defined by its capacity and desire for learning. The program itself argues for a public education that is at once more rigorous and more accessible.

Practical information for learning how to speak and listen more effectively.With over half a million copies in print of his "living classic" How to Read a Book in print, intellectual, philosopher, and academic Mortimer J. Adler set out to write an accompanying volume on speaking and listening, offering the impressive depth of knowledge and accessible panache that distinguished his first book. In How to Speak How to Listen, Adler explains the f...

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material. Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them-from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspectional reading, to speed...

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Arguing that the syntactical and "ordinary language" approaches have not satisfactorily treated fundamental questions surrounding the issue of "meaning" in language, this work develops a third approach, described as "semantic and lexical".

The first edition of The Common Sense of Politics described itself as a just in time tonic for those of us who have given up on common sense as well as on politics and can no longer see the connection between the two.One has only to scan the pages of this 1996 edition to recognize that this book is just as appropriate and important, if not more. With the development of a European Community, the upcoming American presidential election, and in l...

Mortimer J. Adler wrote How to Think About War and Peace in the summer of 1943, two years before an atom bomb exploded over Hiroshima and brought the Second World War to an end. Because of its relevance to our own time, Fordham University Press has reprinted Adler's important book, bringing it up to date with an introduction by John Logue. In the book, Adler writes that "anarchy" is an appropriate name for the existing system of nation states ...

Come leggere un libro", pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1940, è divenuto un raro fenomeno, un classico vivente. Esso rappresenta, infatti, la guida più completa per l'acquisizione della competenza nella lettura. Questa nuova edizione è stata completamente riscritta e aggiornata. Gli autori distinguono vari livelli di lettura e spiegano come fare per acquisirli dalla lettura elementare, attraverso la scorsa sistemica del testo e la lettura es...

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