Dr. Mortimer J. Adler (December 28, 1902- June 28, 2001)

Chairman and Cofounder with Max Weismann of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas and Editor in Chief of its journal Philosophy is Everybody's Business, Founder and Director of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Chairman of the Board of Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Editor in Chief of the Great Books of the Western World and The Syntopicon: An Index to the Great Ideas, Editor of The Great Ideas Today (all published by Encyclopaedia Britannica), Co-Founder and Honorary Trustee of The Aspen Institute, past Instructor at Columbia University, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago (1930-52).

Ongoing programs started or developed by Dr. Adler include: The Great Books Foundation (with Robert Hutchins), the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults at the University of Chicago (with Robert Hutchins), the Executive Seminars of The Aspen Institute, the Paideia Project (a plan for major reform of public school education), and The Great Ideas seminars at the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas—all promoting liberal education through an understanding of great works of philosophy, literature, history, science, and religion.

For more detailed information about Dr. Adler, two auto-biographies covering his intellectual life, should be consulted: Philosopher at Large: An Intellectual Autobiography (1902-1976) Collier Books, Macmillan, 1992, originally published in 1977), and A Second Look in the Rearview Mirror: Further Autobiographical Reflections of a Philosopher at Large (Macmillan, 1992).

http://www.thegreatideas.org/adlerbio_short.html

目 錄

緻讀者 1

前 言 初始時的小錯誤 1

第一章 意識與客體 1

第二章 理智與感覺 22

第三章 語詞與意義 42

第四章 知識與意見 66

第五章 道德價值 87

第六章 幸福與滿足 104

第七章 選擇的自由 116

第八章 人性 125

第九章 人類社會 134

第十章 人的存在 143

結 語 現代科學與古代智慧 154

自由·平等·正義 153

譯後記 241