How to Speak How to Listen

[This is the Audiobook CASSETTE Library Edition in vinyl case.] [Read by Harold Cropp] Mortimer J. Adler's classic How to Read a Book was an instant bestseller upon publication, and its worldwide sales today total over seven million copies. Audiences will find this companion book just as provocative as its predecessor. Drawing on decades of experience as an educator and philosopher, Mortimer J. Adler offers a short course in effective communication, filled with his wisdom and wit. Both instructive and practical, How to Speak, How to Listen will be invaluable to everyone: salespeople and executives involved in conferences and negotiations, politicians, lecturers, and teachers, as well as families seeking to improve communication among themselves.

Adler, Mortimer

Touchstone

One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler’s illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful. Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God’s existence, especially Aquinas’s Five Ways, and found shortcomings in all of them, as conventionally understood. But he thought that some of them contained ideas which, if properly developed, could be improved, and he continued to search for a satisfying and logically unassailable proof. Toward the end of the 1970s, he believed he had arrived at such a proof, which he presented in his historic work, How to Think about God (1980). In the writings assembled in How to Prove There Is a God, Adler gives us his approach to the question of God’s existence in fresh and popular form. He defends his position against critics, both believers and skeptics. The book includes a transcript of one of Adler’s appearances on William Buckley’s Firing Line, Adler’s revealing interview with Edward Wakin, the exchange of views on natural theology between Adler and Owen Gingerich, and John Cramer’s eloquent argument that the trend of modern cosmology supports Adler’s early struggles with the question of God's existence.

How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings and Thoughts About God

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Open Court

This book is not merely a recapitulation of the War for Independence. It is an attempt to set before the reader the "what-happened" of our Revolution in terms of the issues and conflicts that fired the colonists and prodded them to make a new nation. It is a commemoration of how the Americans worked out their political destiny by means of trial and error, success and failure, with all the vices and virtues, shortcomings, sense and nonsense that encumber every such complex undertaking. The selections in this book are meant to allow those whom we designate as Founding Fathers to speak for themselves as they once spoke to each other.

The Revolutionary years: Britannica's book of the American Revolution

Encyclopedia Britannica

What is “moral” in the modern age? What is truly “ethical”? Adler skillfully separates “real” good from “apparent” good, and shows how excesses—like gluttony, or the lust for power—simply mistake the means for the ends. Drawing on the entire Western philosophical tradition, he tackles (and solves) some of the thorniest ethical problems facing the world today. This clear and straightforward book is geared toward the lay reader rather than the philosophy student.

Desires, Right & Wrong

Axios

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How to Speak How to Listen

How to Prove There Is a God: Mortimer J. Adler's Writings and Thoughts About God

The Revolutionary years: Britannica's book of the American Revolution

Desires, Right & Wrong