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...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, by Mortimer J. Adler. The well-known philosopher and dialectician cogently defends man's unique nature against the encroachment of manlike machines...
...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, by Mortimer J. Adler. The American philosopher and dialectician defends man's unique nature against the encroachment of manlike machines...
...DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES by Mortimer J. Adler. 395 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...Mortimer Adler, the philosopher and dialectician who heads Chicago's Institute for Philosophical Research, argues that the matter is far from merely academic. If man is not basically different from the animals, that would undermine "those who now oppose injurious discrimination on the moral ground that all human beings, being equal in their humanity, should be treated equally." Inferior types might be looked upon as man now looks on inferior animals. A large measure of truth could be read into one of Hitler's Nürnberg decrees that held "there is a greater difference between the lowest...
Against this assumption, Adler poses a contemporary version of the "Cartesian challenge." Show me an animal or a machine that can speak in sentences, said Descartes, in effect, and I will believe that man is not unique in his possession of an immaterial power that gives him reason. Even idiots can arrange words to make known their thoughts, Descartes explained, but "no animal can do the same." To him that was satisfactory proof that "the brutes" have no reason at all. Adler demands more before he will abandon man's uniqueness. Show me a neurologist who can "give...