From the Center: Adler on memory and imagination; Bret Stephens; Montaigne; Julia Baggini

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

• Bret Stephens on Radical Parents, Despotic Children and recent events on college campuses
• Montaigne on ends and means
• Julian Baggini on free will
• Mortimer Adler on memory and imagination as one of the Great Ideas
• The Center has received a 2015 Best of Chicago Award
• Remember Pearl Harbor?

From the Center: Adler and Van Doren on wisdom, Mikics on Bloom

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

• Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren on reading and wisdom
• David Mikics on Harold Bloom

Adler On: Abstract and Concrete

Can all universal objects of thought be instantiated by perceived or perceivable particulars? Some Questions About Language (1976), Chapter VII, Question 3

Defined, Adler's Philosophical Dictionary (1995)

--Terrence Berres