Reason Alone
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Location: Charleston, WV
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8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. FIRST PRINTING (1982) with complete number sequence on verso [...]
8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. FIRST PRINTING (1982) with complete number sequence on verso including 1. Cloth spine with bright gold spine lettering. Internally clean sound and unmarked. Dust jacket has a bit of a small roll along edges and a small 1/4 closed tear to top of front cover. Red remainder dot on top of spine. Not price clipped. "Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902  June 28, 2001) was an American Aristotelian philosopher and author. He was born in New York City, the son of an immigrant jewelry salesman. He dropped out of school at 14 years of age and went to work as a secretary and copy boy at the New York Sun, hoping to become a journalist. After a year, he took night classes at Columbia University to improve his writing. It was there that he became interested, after reading the autobiography of the great English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in the great philosophers and thinkers of Western civilization. Adler was driven to continue his reading after learning that Mill had read Plato when he was only five years old, while he had not read him at all. A book by Plato was lent to him by a neighbor and Adler became hooked. He then decided to study philosophy at Columbia, where he received a scholarship. Because he had not learned to swim and was otherwise non-athletic, Adler was unable to fulfill the requirement then in place of swimming laps in the College pool and was therefore unable to complete the requirements for his bachelors degree. It did not prevent him from enrolling in the graduate program, and Columbia awarded the B.A. to Adler in 1984 in recognition of his lifetime achievements. Adler became an instructor at Columbia in the 1920s. He continued to participate in the Honors program (today the Core Curriculum) which had been started by John Erskine. This program focused on the reading of the great Classics. His tenure at the university included study with such eminent thinkers as Erskine and John Dewey, the famous American pragmatist philosopher. This kind of environment inspired his early interest in reading and the study of the "Great Books" of Western Civilization. He also promoted the idea that philosophy should be integrated with science, literature, and religion." (Wikipedia) See my many 1st Printings for combined shipping.
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