![]() ![]() Adler It's the - of all the academic disciplines, it's the only one that is not a specialty. One of the first things you say is that philosophy is everybody's business and that it's part of everyday being. And so I thought perhaps the reflections of Mortimer J. ![]() And his most recent book, How to Read a Book is certainly one of his most popular and indeed a bestseller, the most recent one is Six Great Ideas published by Macmillan. Studs Terkel Editors, rather, and director of the Institute of, of Philosophical Research that gave us the Syntopicon, we can perhaps talk about that a little, too. ![]() Adler who, you know, you knew him, people do, from the Great Books courses that he and Robert Maynard Hutchins instituted at the University of Chicago during those glory days at the University, and Professor Adler is chairman of the board of Encyclopaedia Britannica. At the same now I was thinking of perhaps the most celebrated of our popular philosophers, of Mortimer J. Only philosophers can make a living." He says, "Look at Bertrand Russell." He was very funny. ![]() Studs Terkel A few years ago Mike Nichols in a, in a comic routine spoke of being - he was a British writer, and he says "Poets can't make a living these days." He - "Playwrights can't, writers can't. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |