/lit/ - Literature

>mogs you with his big jewish meta cognitive brain

What is wrong with having a conversation with the author?

How do I join the intellectual elite? Where do people that are well read critical thinkers socialize?

>>17419758

what a pretentious loser lmao

Without this man where would we be?

What are /lit/'s thoughts on Mortimer Adler?

Why does he not get as much talk as the likes as Leo Strauss when he serves as an antidote to his evil and that of his ilk?

>>11141954
>Librarians (or your friends) who lend you books expect you to keep them clean, and you should. If you decide that I am right about the usefulness of marking books, you will have to buy them. Most of the world's great books are available today, in reprint editions.

>There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it. An illustration may make the point clear. You buy a beefsteak and transfer it from the butcher's icebox to your own. But you do not own the beefsteak in the most important sense until you consume it and get it into your bloodstream. I am arguing that books, too, must be absorbed in your blood stream to do you any good.
>Confusion about what it means to "own" a book leads people to a false reverence for paper, binding, and type -- a respect for the physical thing -- the craft of the printer rather than the genius of the author. They forget that it is possible for a man to acquire the idea, to possess the beauty, which a great book contains, without staking his claim by pasting his bookplate inside the cover. Having a fine library doesn't prove that its owner has a mind enriched by books; it proves nothing more than that he, his father, or his wife, was rich enough to buy them.

>There are three kinds of book owners. The first has all the standard sets and best sellers -- unread, untouched. (This deluded individual owns woodpulp and ink, not books.) The second has a great many books -- a few of them read through, most of them dipped into, but all of them as clean and shiny as the day they were bought. (This person would probably like to make books his own, but is restrained by a false respect for their physical appearance.) The third has a few books or many -- every one of them dog-eared and dilapidated, shaken and loosened by continual use, marked and scribbled in from front to back. (This man owns books.)

This is Mortimer J. Adler. He's my intellectual hero and I want to know why he's not better well regarded? He's pretty much remembered for only writing one book, "How to Read a Book" even though he wrote 52 books in his life and edited many others.

Who has read Mortimer J. Adler's philosophical writings?

He wrote on capitalism, socialism, and theology. Seems like he'd be right up /lit/s alley.

Have any of you read The Capitalist Manifesto?

How about 21st century writings on Democracy and Socialism?

How to Prove there is a God???

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>>10288488
You just called Mortimer Adler, the man who wrote that book, and helped compile Encyclopedia Britannica's Great Books and that list, a retard with aspergers.

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business. Propaganda taken in that way is like a drug you do not know you are swallowing. The effect is mysterious. You do not know afterwards why you feel or think the way you do.

There are many college students who know, certainly by the time they get their bachelor's degree, that they spent four years taking courses and finishing with them by passing examinations. The mastery attained in that process is not of subject matter, but of the teacher's personality. If the student remembers enough of what was told to him in lectures and textbooks, and if he has a line on the teacher's pet prejudices, he can pass the course easily enough. but he is also passing up an education.

What was his end goal?

Let's talk about liberal education, /lit/.
Is there any course syllabus available on the internet that would cover a liberal education?

I'm currently following the St. Thomas Aquinas College syllabus, it's pretty good.