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...books, progenitor of the Great Books of the Western World and of the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, was relishing another intellectual free-for-all. His opponents were British Philosophers Anthony Quinton and Maurice Cranston, who had been invited to debate Adler on his own turf-the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Moderated by Bill Moyers and billed as a medieval-style "public disputation" on the future of democracy, the affair celebrated the 25th anniversary of Adler's Chicago-based Institute for Philosophical Research...
...sense, his critics were right, for Adler still describes himself as an Aristotelian. (When he first started his Aspen programs for executives, Adler and a group actually donned robes to get into the spirit of academe.) He relishes dismissing most of philosophy since Thomas Aquinas as being snarled with pseudo problems. Modern philosophy, claims Adler, got off to "a very bad start" when Descartes and Locke committed the "besetting sin of modern thought": they ignored Aristotle...
Accessibility: excellent. Allow 15 to 30 min. for seven-mile ride downtown by car or cab ($5). Downtown limousines ($2.40) every 20 min. until 11:30 p.m. Trailways buses to Vail ($7), Aspen ($13), Colorado Springs ($5), Boulder ($3). Eleven commuter airlines. Parking: adequate, mostly close in. Flow Through: sprawling, old-fashioned layout. Lounges attractive, comfortable. Some sidewalk checkin. One four-level terminal. Longest walk: one mile. Baggage checkout: fast. Hotels/Motels: ample. Ten within 10 min. Amenities: excellent. Lounges pleasant and comfortable. Good coffee shop open until 7:30 p.m. (beef tacos, $2.50); crowded self-service cafeteria. Best restaurant: Crossroads...
Ehrlichman then came in. I knew that Ehrlichman was bitter because he felt very strongly he shouldn't resign. Although, he'd indicated that Haldeman should go and maybe he should stay. And I took Ehrlichman out on the porch at Aspen--you've never been to Aspen I suppose...
That parlor question has been troubling Philosopher Mortimer Jerome Adler, 75, partly because the sage of Aspen has an incurable passion for arranging ideas into categories, partly because this is the 25th anniversary of his proclamation, with the help of Robert Hutchins, of the "Great Books of the Western World." To organize that 5-ft. 1-in. shelf, Adler bestowed the title of greatness on 443 works by 74 authors, but denied it to anyone after Freud and William James...