Aristotle for Everyone: Unlocking the Secrets of Difficult Thought with Ease

joyce islip: I am thoroughly enjoying this interpretation but it will take time to read as the content needs assimilating- I can recommend this work to everyone!

United Kingdom on Jul 06, 2023

Client d'Amazon: Book full of annotations. Unreadable. Would liké an exchange. Jh

United Kingdom on Jan 11, 2023

SpeedReader: This was one of the books required for my Engineering Ethics class when I was in school. Thankfully, it is not as dense as a philosophy book would be, but it does distill Aristotle's teachings into very easily digestible parts. The book is pretty short (at least when compared to a textbook), just under 200 pages, and while I would not say it is as quick a read as a novel, it is not so dense that it takes a long time to get through. I think many people will get the book because it is required for a class, but it is something that someone who is just interested in philosophy without getting too bogged down in the material could enjoy reading.

United States on Sep 28, 2022

Jahangir Jabbarov: I bought this book mainly because I was interested in Aristotle's view on happiness and good life. These subjects are treated in part III of this book. I think Mr Adler managed to clearly explain ideas that Aristotle had on universal human needs, their hierarchy and means for a good life.

I also liked Part IV where Mr Adler talks about knowledge, truth, its levels and the ways of establishing it. I think this is a very important subject for ability to think critically and which is often overlooked in secondary schools (and even in colleges).

I liked the three directions that human mind can take explained in chapter 3 - human as a Maker who deals with Art, human as a Doer who deals with Justice and human as a Knower who deals with Truth. This is a helpful way to group the multitude of activities that a person can do today.

As always, Mr Adler has a very clear way of writing, making his main terms, paragraphs and chapters very understandable.

United States on Apr 04, 2022

Eric F.: Everything arrived on time and as advertised

United States on Mar 05, 2022

Héctor Guillermo Muñoz: Mortimer Adler is a real master of the art of dominating a topic in such a way as to be able to explain it to a six-year old and having him understand. This book is a highly reccomended introduction to Aristotle in plain words and which makes all the sense in the world. I particularly enjoyed his section on the good life and on virtue.

Mexico on Dec 22, 2018

banjoJed: There are several books by Mortimer Adler that are still in production, this being one of them. I very much recommend it for several reasons. One of which is that it is by Mortimer Adler himself, the founder of the Great Ideas project ([...]). He has been considered one of America's greatest philosophers by many among the most well respected journalists, conservatives, and academics in the US for over a half century.

Next, this particular book on Aristotle is easier to understand than many of the stuffy and arrogant self-referential epitomes by the hot-n-tot academics that fill all too many of the bookshelves of America's corner bookstores.

Lastly, if you read this book by Adler, and do a bit of research about his overall agenda in the exercise of philosophy in America, you will most likely buy several of his other books such as "How to Think About God", or "Ten Philosophical Mistakes", or "We Hold These Truths", or "Truth in Religion", for example.

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United States on May 26, 2016

Thomas Aquinas: This is an absolute genius of a book. The world is in a mess because of the wrong direction modern philosophy has taken starting with Occam,Descartes and going on to the crazy theories of Kant, Hegel, Hume, Locke. Feuerbach, Marx and most of the post modern madness. In Aristotle there is sanity and Adler explains why. If his teaching became standard in our modern universities the world would be a much happier and safer place.

United Kingdom on Oct 04, 2014

ASh: Bought this one for my wife when she took a shine to looking into philosophy. Not a novel; you need to read this book when there are few distractions.

United Kingdom on Jul 28, 2013

Massimo Pigliucci: Adler's introduction to Aristotle is a must read for anyone interested in beginning to appreciate one of the most influential thinkers of all time. This is written for the general public, and it succeeds marvelously at what it sets out to do (although, for those wanting go deeper, the author includes a second table of contents at the end, with detailed references to original sources). The book covers the major aspects of Aristotle's thought, from his understanding of causality to his ethics, from his discussions of what it means to lead a good life to his concept of god. I found the organization of the book in broad sections, each further subdivided into bite size chapters, very easy on the reader, as it should be. Inevitably, different people will find different parts of the book more engaging than others. In my case I have a preference for Adler's discussion of Aristotle's four causes (early in the book) and how it explains the philosopher's thinking about god as prime mover of the universe (later in the volume). Particularly insightful is Adler's discussion of the difference between the Aristotelian and the Christian conceptions of god. The author strove to avoid technical...

United States on Aug 02, 2009