The great ideas : a lexicon of Western thought /
by Mortimer J. Adler.
- New York : Toronto : New York : Macmillan ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1992.
- xxxviii, 958 p. ; 25 cm.
Originally published as: v. 2-3 (1952) and v. 1-2 (1990) of Great books of the Western world.
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.
"[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.