Adler, Mortimer Jerome

Brings Aristotle's work to an everyday level of understanding of intangibles, such as the difference between wants and needs and the proper way to pursue happiness.

Answers questions and discusses the problems of implementing school reform in the U.S. as outlined in the "Paideia Proposal," which calls for an educational system that prepares students to earn a living, assume the duties of citizenship in a democracy, and continue their self-development after all schooling has been completed.

On t.p.: A compendium of important statements on man and his institutions by the great thinkers in western history.

Explores the concepts of truth, goodness, beauty, liberty, equality, and justice as a basis for coping with the political, moral, and social issues of the modern world.

Brings Aristotle's work to an everyday level of understanding of intangibles, such as the difference between wants and needs and the proper way to pursue happiness.