Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.

Aristotle for everybody : difficult thought made easy / Mortimer J. Adler. - 1st Touchstone ed. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997. - xiv, 206 pages ; 21 cm

"A Touchstone book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206).

Philosophical games -- The great divide -- Man's three dimensions -- Aristotle's Crusoe -- Change and permanence -- The four causes -- To be and not to be -- Productive ideas and know-how -- Thinking about ends and means -- Living and living well -- Good, better, best -- How to pursue happiness -- Good habits and good luck -- What others have a right to expect from us -- What we have a right to expect from others and from the state -- What goes into the mind and what comes out of it -- Logic's little words -- Telling the truth and thinking it -- Beyond a reasonable doubt -- Infinity -- Eternity -- The immateriality of the mind -- God -- Epilogue : for those who have read or wish to read Aristotle.

Offers an imaginative perspective on Aristotelian logic, presenting an exploration of nature, society, and man in light of commonplace events and reexamining concepts of body, mind, change, cause, part, whole, one, and many.

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