Growing Old with Pleasure and Profit

This bonus issue of the Center’s weekly, The Great Ideas Online (No. 1036), discussed this essay by Mortimer Adler.

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Doable Deeds: Thinking philosophically reaches to wisdom

James Hanink at the New Oxford Review.

"What is this thinking about what makes us and our families and (shoot for the moon!) our cultures and countries whole? It’s philosophical thinking. In thinking this way, we go beyond expertise and adding to our skill sets. There’s also more to it than the exercise of our intelligence, though intellectual it surely is. Thinking philosophically aims at understanding parts in relation to wholes and wholes in relation to parts. Everything is what it is, and everything is in relation."

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Philosophy Infomercial

Featuring Socrates and Bertrand Russell at Existential Comics.

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From the Center: Adler on Progress; failure and character; Thucydides; "safe spaces"; the presidency;

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

• On Costica Bradatan's views on failure and humility
• "The Priorities of Getting it Right and Getting Along", a Special Edition, by Center Member Peter DeMarco
• Mortimer Adler on progress as one of The Great Ideas
• Biographical note on Thucydides
• Noting a letter to the editor of the Wall Street Journal from Paige Rodriguez of Louisville, Colorado, on the purpose of education and University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer's statement on "safe spaces"
• On Brion McClanahan's account of the office of the President
• On Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins in Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values, by Robert M. PirsigRobert M. Pirsig, see pp. 341-43
• 3 for 2 Video Sale

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From the Center: Adler on Science, and on Pleasure and Pain; Kagan on studying Western Civ;

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

• Mortimer Adler on modern science and ancient wisdom
• Donald Kagan on studying the history of Western Civilization
• Adler on Pleasure and Pain as one of The Great Ideas
• Biographical note on Euripides
• The Classic Learning Test

Here at the weblog, added Omnivoracious - The Amazon Book Review to the Books and Ideas Blogroll in the sidebar.

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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