Word: dialectica
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adler sees it, the Summa Dialectica must go beyond his Syntopicon of the 102 Great Ideas (TIME, March 17). The Syntopicon merely laid the. groundwork by furnishing a key to the great books of the past. The Dialectica must attempt to treat the great issues (God, Man, Nature, History, Knowledge, Being, etc.) in relation to the present. Each topic may take many years. But eventually, Adler hopes, a great conversation will have begun. It will be a conversation that may never have an end, but if all goes according to plan, men will finally learn at least what the talk...
...only disagree but cannot even argue with each other in the same language. He does not want to reach conclusions, but simply clear the decks for "some future philosophic genius" by summing up the various positions on each question in all fields. Tentative title of the work: Summa Dialectica. Adler already has a grant for the project from Paul Mellon's Old Dominion Foundation. He does not expect to live to see it finished, but hopes to train a staff to get it done before century...
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