Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.,

Aristotle for everybody : difficult thought made easy / [print] Mortimer J. Adler. - New York : Bantam Books, (c)1978. - xiii, 190 pages ; 18 cm.

Part I - Man the Philosophical Animal. Philosophical Games -- The Great Divide -- Man's Three Dimensions PART II - Man the Maker. Aristotle's Crusoe -- Change and Permanence -- The Four Causes -- To Be and Not to Be -- Productive Ideas and Know-How PART III - Man the Doer. Thinking about Ends and Means -- Living and Living Well -- Good, Better, Best -- How to Pursue Happiness -- Good Habits and Good Luck -- What Others Have a Right to Expect from Us -- What We Have a Right to Expect from Others and from the State PART IV - Man the Knower. What Goes into the Mind and What Comes out of It -- Logic's Little Words -- Telling the Truth and Thinking It -- Beyond a Reasonable Doubt PART V - Difficult Philosophical Questions. Infinity -- Eternity -- The Immateriality of Mind -- God EPILOGUE: -- For Those Who Have Read or Who Wish to Read Aristotle.



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