The Great Ideas
Author: Mortimer Jerome Adler
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780684859217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreviously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.
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How to Think About the Great Ideas
Author: Mortimer Adler
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2000-03-01
Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 081269693X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTime magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all men and women ponder in the course of life, such as "What is love?", "How do we decide the right thing to do?", and, "What does it mean to be good?" Drawing on his extensive knowledge of Western literature, history, and philosophy, the author considers what is meant by democracy, law, emotion, language, truth, and other abstract concepts in light of more than two millennia of Western civilization and discourse. Adler's essays offer a remarkable and contemplative distillation of the Great Ideas of Western Thought.
Six Great Ideas
Author: Mortimer J. Adler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997-12-01
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1439104921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis enlightening study is the result of group discussions at Dr. Adler's annual seminar in Aspen, Colorado, and conversations between Dr. Adler and Bill moyers filmed for public television. Each summer, Mortimer J. Adler conducts a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of the six great ideas that are the subject of this book: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty - the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice - the ideas we act on. The group discussions and conversations between Dr. Adler and journalist Bill Moyers were filmed for broadcast on public television, and thousands of people followed their exploration of these important ideas. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the specialist. He argues that "philosophy is everybody's business," and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral, and social issues that confront us daily.
How to Get to Great Ideas
Author: Dave Birss
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: 2019-04-02
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1473692172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSliver award winner in Business Reference 2020 Axiom Business Book Awards What makes a great idea? Where do great ideas come from? The highly practical lessons in HOW TO GET TO GREAT IDEAS are based on neuroscience,psychology, and behavioral economics. Written by the former Creative Director of OgilvyOne, Dave Birss, this book offers a brilliant new system for conceiving original and valuable ideas. It looks at how to frame the problem, how to push your thinking, how to sell the idea and build support for it, and how to inspire others to have great ideas. It proves that any organization - and any department within an organization - can become a fertile environment for ideas. Combining a practical research-based system with fascinating insights and inspiring and humorous writing,the book is also accompanied by the problem-solving system RIGHT THINKING. This is a tool that shows organizations a more effective way to generate more effective ideas and is based on the thinking in the book. This is available online and in person from the author.
How to Have Great Ideas
Author: John Ingledew
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Published: 2016-02-01
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 1780679904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow to Have Great Ideas is the essential guide for students and young professionals looking to embrace creative thinking in design, advertising and communications. It provides 53 practical strategies for unlocking innovative ideas. Strategies include improvisation techniques, changing the scenery, finding hidden links, looking to nature for inspiration, combining unusual systems, challenging set boundaries and many more. Each strategy is packed with great examples of successful contemporary and historical designs – from a designer dress made out of an old typewriter to ticket machines powered by recycled bottles in China, via the reimagining of famous brand logos and mis-use of photocopiers. Packed with practical projects to kick-start inventive thought in idea-blocked moments, this book explores creative thinking across all visual arts disciplines.
The Great Ideas Today, 1970
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 9780852291504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe First Ten Books
Author: Confucius
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-08-25
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 0141967226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerhaps the most widely read thinker of all time, Confucius transformed Chinese philosophy with his belief that the greatest goal in life was pursuit of 'The Way': a search for virtue not as a means to rewards in this world or the next, but as the pinnacle of human existence.
Ten Great Ideas about Chance
Author: Persi Diaconis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0691196397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gamblers and mathematicians transformed the idea of chance from a mystery into the discipline of probability, setting the stage for a series of breakthroughs that enabled or transformed innumerable fields, from gambling, mathematics, statistics, economics, and finance to physics and computer science. This book tells the story of ten great ideas about chance and the thinkers who developed them, tracing the philosophical implications of these ideas as well as their mathematical impact.
Great Thinkers, Great Ideas
Author: Vincent J. Falcone
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780962932311
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreat Ideas in History, Politics, and Philosophy
Author: J Caleb Clanton
Publisher:
Published: 2021-08
Total Pages: 695
ISBN-13: 9781481316187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the world at our fingertips through the internet, it can be paralyzing and overwhelming to take in all the information available. What's needed is a way to tune out the noise and home in on foundational ideas that can help us better navigate the complexities of our highly interconnected age. Great Ideas in History, Politics, and Philosophy offers a preliminary exposure to the intellectual resources--the great ideas--that have influenced and enriched human experience, cultures, and civilizations for centuries. This volume offers streamlined access to seminal passages from some of the most important texts in human history--texts that have inspired and informed enduring questions related to the pursuit of wisdom and worldview, religious faith, historical and moral reflection, and civic and political life. Selections are drawn from a variety of key traditions and historical contexts, including ancient Greece, China, India, and Rome; Judaism, early Christianity, and classical Islam; medieval Europe; the Renaissance and exploration period; the early modern period and Enlightenment; and early U.S. history. Here readers can acquaint themselves with towering perspectives, meditations, arguments, and documents in the academic disciplines of history, political science, and philosophy. Great Ideas in History, Politics, and Philosophy invites readers to enter into conversations that are both timely and timeless.
