At 08:24 PM 12/27/01 -0800, MBB wrote:
>> Mortimer Adler's "The Great Ideas: A
>> Lexicon of Western Thought";
>Keep a large lump of halite handy for that one. Mortimer had delusions of
omniscience.
He's also a Catholic Thomist (that is, a devotee of medieval scholastic
theologian/philosopher Thomas Aquinas), so he's interesting on Aristotle
but presumably about as reliable as the Pope on some issues.
Damien Broderick
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