From Firing Line, philosopher Mortimer Adler discusses the pursuit of knowledge with William F. Buckley Jr. www.LibertyPen.com Buy complete 53 minute program for $5, rent program for $1: www.amazon.com/Firing-Line-Wil...
Mr. Adler has my deepest respect as a human being who clearly demonstrates that wonderful things can happen to your brain and mind when you turn off the TV and sit in a quiet place to read a book worth reading. Thank you
+Bepositive ... do you get enough time to sit in a quiet place and ''think for yourself''...? if so, I want to have an online discussion of ideas with you...
@@vkorchnoifan according to Mortimer Adler in his book How to Read a Book - These are some of the great books for him out of an ocean of mostly garbage. Homer- Iliad, Odessey. The Old Testament KJV, The Testament KJV. Aeschylus - Tragedies. Sophocles - Tragedies . Herodotus- History (of the Persian Wars). Hippocrates - Medical Writings. Plato - Dialogues (especially The Republic, Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, Apology, Phaedrus.). Aristotole - Works (Especially Organon, Phsyics, Metaphysics, On the Soul, Politics, Rhetoric, Poetics). Marcus Aurelius - Meditations. Why dont you just start there thats a long list right there honestly , if you read just a handful of those properly you would be more well read than 99.99999% of the population? Or more actaully read Mortimer's how to read a book first so you have all the tools to properly read books
For anyone unsure where to begin their classical education read Mortimer Adler's book: " How to Read a Book". The appendix in the back has a list of over 200 classical books, the overwhelming majority of which you will never have been prompted to read in your government education.
I'm reading his and Charles Van Doren's book 'How to Read a Book' right now. I'm about halfway through it. It has been a very good read so far. I think that I have learnt a lot already.
edward6000 Well, it doesn't teach you how to read in the most basic and elementary sense of course. But it teaches you how you take notes, what questions you should ask of a book, how to criticize it, how to analyze it, etc. Basically how you can get more out of each book that you read, whether that be fiction or non-fiction. I highly recommend it. :)
The closest thing might be some of the podcasters who do interviews. Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan come to mind, albeit nothing close to Adler (esp Rogan). Unbelievable by Justin Brierley does interview and debates on meaningful topics.
Were they better listeneres back then? Do you feel a flourishing calm from these two gents that makes what they say receieved better by audience? or is it the vintage feeling and an illusion of my mind? :D
It's the old axiom, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and he feed's himself for a lifetime, the same is true of schooling tell a person a fact and they can retell it but if you teach a person how to understand fact's and draw there own conclusions then there is no limit to they can learn.
"Relevance" was the key word, "argument" if you will, of the "educational" aspect of the student/liberal professor revolt of the '60s. He is here fighting this.
Read Plato's Meno. It's a little more mythical then rational (Plato believes that we are born knowing everything and when we 'learn' something we're recollecting it) ... but otherwise, it's pretty interesting. Have you ever wondered what A^2+B^2=C^2 means? ...he explains that too!
Cómo leer un libro, de Mortimer se encontraba agotado en el idioma español y batalle durante un año para encontrar el libro usado, parece que me lleve la última copia
It's fundamentally counterproductive to say a True Teacher can never be an absolute expert, especially in relation to what their students know, which was the context given.
Adrienne Freas The complete set: www.thegreatideas.org/mortimer_adler_videos/index.html I think this clip is just an overview of the complete set and the rational for why learning the great ideas are so timeless and valuable. I would buy the set of DVD's if I had $400. I'm sure they are excellent. Adler was chief editor, or something of the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Great guy
@Fyodor and Didier Allende: I do suppose that makes him one of the Anusim. Yes, you guessed it. The Jewish view of converts that are "out-of-the-faith". Mar Anus= Mr.Asshole. In proper Spanish (buen castellano), he would be called a Marrano; all for a lie.
mortimer adler was a totally devoted to the truth sort of man. if he felt, after long researches i'm sure he did, that christianity was the most rational belief to have, then he was more than right to go persuade it, even if that included leaving behind old beliefs. it's always the truth above all things
Adler is the only person I've found to be more confident than Buckley. But inexplicably, there is no reason for his confidence. I understand that his "work" preceded the science of pedagogy, but his wild, uncited and unsubstantiated claims about how students learn is laughable. Adler wrote interesting books for his time on the topics of reading, writing and listening. But here, and in so many other clips, he gets out over his skis and makes overarching claims that are either not true or cannot be demonstrated to be true. He is really a bn pompous fraud.
@@TheEkaterinaSCH I trust you are not referring to Adler, who clearly summarizes (in his "Hiw to Tead a Book") the history of reading pedagogy as well as explaining his own, well-reasoned suggestions regarding how one might come to improve one's mind by improving one's reading skills. Pedagogical theories are often cyclical, and some are divergent, so there are people who have dismissed Adler, likely to their detriment, IMO.
