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Adler, Mortimer Jerome
Born: 1902 AD
Died: 2001 AD, at 98 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Philosophers
Died: 2001 AD, at 98 years of age.
Nationality: American
Categories: Authors, Philosophers
1902 - Born on the 28th of December in New York City.
1930 - He was appointed to the philosophy faculty at the University of Chicago.
1949 - He served on the Board of Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
1952 - He founded and served as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research.
1965 - He was the director of editorial planning for the fifteenth edition of Britannica.
1980 - He wrote "How to Think About God".
1981 - He conducted a seminar in Colorado at the Aspen Institute based on his book "Six Great Ideas".
2000 - He became a Roman Catholic.
- He can be considered a Catholic philosopher due to his lifelong participation in the Neo-Thomist movement.
2001 - He died on the 28th of June.
1930 - He was appointed to the philosophy faculty at the University of Chicago.
1949 - He served on the Board of Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
1952 - He founded and served as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research.
1965 - He was the director of editorial planning for the fifteenth edition of Britannica.
1980 - He wrote "How to Think About God".
1981 - He conducted a seminar in Colorado at the Aspen Institute based on his book "Six Great Ideas".
2000 - He became a Roman Catholic.
- He can be considered a Catholic philosopher due to his lifelong participation in the Neo-Thomist movement.
2001 - He died on the 28th of June.
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- "You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
- "Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men."
- "In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
- "Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself."
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