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The great ideas : a lexicon of Western thought / by Mortimer J. Adler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Macmillan ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.Description: xxxviii, 958 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0025005731
  • 9780025005730
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 081
LOC classification:
  • R AC 1 A237g 1992
Contents:
1. Angel -- 2. Animal -- 3. Aristocracy -- 4. Art -- 5. Astronomy and cosmology -- 6. Beauty -- 7. Being -- 8. Cause -- 9. Chance -- 10. Change -- 11. Citizen -- 12. Constitution -- 13. Courage -- 14. Custom and convention -- 15. Definition -- 16. Democracy -- 17. Desire -- 18. Dialectic -- 19. Duty -- 20. Education -- 21. Element -- 22. Emotion -- 23. Eternity -- 24. Evolution -- 25. Experience -- 26. Family -- 27. Fate -- 28. Form -- 29. God -- 30. Good and evil -- 31. Government -- 32. Habit -- 33. Happiness -- 34. History -- 35. Honor -- 36. Hypothesis -- 37. Idea -- 38. Immortality -- 39. Induction -- 40. Infinity -- 41. Judgment -- 42. Justice -- 43. Knowledge -- 44. Labor -- 45. Language -- 46. Law -- 47. Liberty -- 48. Life and death -- 49. Logic -- 50. Love -- 51. Man -- 52. Mathematics -- 53. Matter -- 54. Mechanics -- 55. Medicine -- 56. Memory and imagination -- 57. Metaphysics -- 58. Mind -- 59. Monarchy -- 60. Nature -- 61. Necessity and contingency -- 62. Oligarchy -- 63. One and many -- 64. Opinion -- 65. Opposition -- 66. Philosophy -- 67. Physics -- 68. Pleasure and pain -- 69. Poetry -- 70. Principle -- 71. Progress -- 72. Prophecy -- 73. Prudence -- 74. Punishment -- 75. Quality -- 76. Quantity -- 77. Reasoning -- 78. Relation -- 79. Religion -- 80. Revolution -- 81. Rhetoric -- 82. Same and other -- 83. Science -- 84. Sense -- 85. Sign and symbol -- 86. Sin -- 87. Slavery -- 88. Soul -- 89. Space -- 90. State -- 91. Temperance -- 92. Theology -- 93. Time -- 94. Truth -- 95. Tyranny and despotism -- 96. Universal and particular -- 97. Virtue and vice -- 98. War and peace -- 99. Wealth -- 100. Will -- 101. Wisdom -- 102. World.
Summary: "[Presents] 102 objects of thought that have collectively defined Western thought for more than 2,500 years ... Each essay treats each idea as if the original authors whose writings the ideals are drawn from were sitting around a table, deep in conversation. Adler's purely descriptive synthesis presents the key points of view on almost 3,000 questions"--Publisher description.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Referencia Referencia (1er. Piso) R AC 1 A237g 1992 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000031467

Originally published as: v. 2-3 (1952) and v. 1-2 (1990) of Great books of the Western world.

"[Presents] 102 objects of thought that have collectively defined Western thought for more than 2,500 years ... Each essay treats each idea as if the original authors whose writings the ideals are drawn from were sitting around a table, deep in conversation. Adler's purely descriptive synthesis presents the key points of view on almost 3,000 questions"--Publisher description.

1. Angel -- 2. Animal -- 3. Aristocracy -- 4. Art -- 5. Astronomy and cosmology -- 6. Beauty -- 7. Being -- 8. Cause -- 9. Chance -- 10. Change -- 11. Citizen -- 12. Constitution -- 13. Courage -- 14. Custom and convention -- 15. Definition -- 16. Democracy -- 17. Desire -- 18. Dialectic -- 19. Duty -- 20. Education -- 21. Element -- 22. Emotion -- 23. Eternity -- 24. Evolution -- 25. Experience -- 26. Family -- 27. Fate -- 28. Form -- 29. God -- 30. Good and evil -- 31. Government -- 32. Habit -- 33. Happiness -- 34. History -- 35. Honor -- 36. Hypothesis -- 37. Idea -- 38. Immortality -- 39. Induction -- 40. Infinity -- 41. Judgment -- 42. Justice -- 43. Knowledge -- 44. Labor -- 45. Language -- 46. Law -- 47. Liberty -- 48. Life and death -- 49. Logic -- 50. Love -- 51. Man -- 52. Mathematics -- 53. Matter -- 54. Mechanics -- 55. Medicine -- 56. Memory and imagination -- 57. Metaphysics -- 58. Mind -- 59. Monarchy -- 60. Nature -- 61. Necessity and contingency -- 62. Oligarchy -- 63. One and many -- 64. Opinion -- 65. Opposition -- 66. Philosophy -- 67. Physics -- 68. Pleasure and pain -- 69. Poetry -- 70. Principle -- 71. Progress -- 72. Prophecy -- 73. Prudence -- 74. Punishment -- 75. Quality -- 76. Quantity -- 77. Reasoning -- 78. Relation -- 79. Religion -- 80. Revolution -- 81. Rhetoric -- 82. Same and other -- 83. Science -- 84. Sense -- 85. Sign and symbol -- 86. Sin -- 87. Slavery -- 88. Soul -- 89. Space -- 90. State -- 91. Temperance -- 92. Theology -- 93. Time -- 94. Truth -- 95. Tyranny and despotism -- 96. Universal and particular -- 97. Virtue and vice -- 98. War and peace -- 99. Wealth -- 100. Will -- 101. Wisdom -- 102. World.

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