Adler on Beauty

The latest issues of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (Nos.1019-1021), discussed a Fall 1980 presentation by Mortimer Adler on the Great Idea of Beauty.

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Encountering the Beautiful

Steven Knepper reviews The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition, by James Matthew Wilson, at Humanitas Journal.

"There is a modern tendency to reduce wonder to curiosity about how things work. Wonder becomes a state of ignorance, one that can be remedied by inquiry. Francis Bacon, for instance, called wonder 'broken knowledge.' What gets lost in this reduction, though, is a deeper sense of wonder at the mystery of being, wonder at the sheer thereness of it all, at there being something rather than nothing. Martin Heidegger, of course, sought to reawaken us to this mystery, but he also claimed that the reduction of'wonder to curiosity had a much older lineage than Bacon. For Heidegger, this reduction—and the attendant 'forgetfulness of being”—is the faulty foundation for the whole tradition of Western metaphysics…"

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Truth, Beauty and Goodness

The latest issue of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 1000), begins this three part discussion, based on a presentation by Mortimer J. Adler at the Aspen Institute in August, 1981.

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Truth, Goodness. and Beauty

The latest issues the Center's weekly, The Great Ideas Online, Nos. 955-57, discussed this December 1981 lecture by Mortimer Adler.

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“What are the Great Ideas: Why & Where Do They Really Matter?”

That's the disputed question for the 43rd Annual Philosophy/Theology Symposium at Walsh University, North Canton, Ohio. All events are free and open to the public, and will be held in Betzler Auditorium. No registration is required. The 2018 Visiting Scholar is William Cathers, an Aspen Institute Moderator, Philosopher, Educator, and Mortimer J. Adler Protégé.

Program Schedule

Tuesday, March 13, 7:30 p.m. “Great Ideas We Judge By:”
- Truth – Dr. Joe Vincenzo
- Goodness – Dr. Brad Beach
- Beauty – Dr. John G. Trapani, Jr.

Wednesday, March 14, 7:30 p.m. “Great Ideas We Live By:”
- Liberty – Dr. Will Cooley
- Equality – Dr. Koop Berry
- Justice – Dr. Joe Torma

Thursday, March 15, 7:30 p.m. Art Form: “Great Ideas in the Arts:”
- Literature – Dr. Matt Akers
- Painting – Dr. Katey Brown
- Music – Dr. Britt Cooper

Friday, March 16, 7:30 p.m. Visiting Scholar: Lecture #1
- Will Cathers: “The Great Ideas: Objects of Understanding”
- Will Cathers: “A Socratic Seminar with Walsh Students; Teaching the Great Ideas the Way Mortimer Adler Would Have Taught Them”

Saturday, March 17, 9:00 a.m.* Visiting Scholar: Lecture #2
- Walsh Seminar Students: Anne Monnin & Andy Zmecek: “Mortimer Adler and the Biographical History of the Great Ideas”
- Will Cathers: Disputed Question #43: “What Are the Great Ideas; Why & Where Do They Really Matter?
*Special recognition to Dr. John G. Trapani Jr. given by President Richard Jusseaume

(via Charita Goshay at The Canton Repository.)

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From the Center: Adler on beauty; and on pluralism;

Recent communications with members of the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas included:

• Mortimer Adler on the idea of beauty as something admirable
• On Jeff Mason on death
• Adler on pluralism

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God’s artist paints a single picture

Sarah Ruden on 'Considering the beauty of Augustine of Hippo's Confessions', at The New Criterion

Adler On: Beauty

The Liar and the Skeptic
Six Great Ideas (1981, 1984), Chapter 5

Admirable Beauty
Six Great Ideas (1981, 1984), Chapter 16

The Goodness of Beauty and the Beauty of Truth
Six Great Ideas (1981, 1984), Chapter 17

Defined
Adler's Philosophical Dictionary (1995)

--Terrence Berres