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...volume set of 443 works by 74 authors (from Homer to Freud), which was published in 1952. To help readers explore those works, he classified man's search for wisdom into 102 basic ideas (from "Angel" to "World") and fashioned an index which he called the Syntopicon, meaning "collection of topics." It directs a reader exploring the ideas to every mention of them in the Great Books, plus the Bible...
Married. Mortimer J. Adler, 60, professor, philosopher, author (How To Read A Book, etc.). lecturer, and compiler of the Syntopicon, a mammoth cross-index of works written by 74 of the world's most important authors on 102 of the world's most important ideas; and Caroline Sage Pring, 26, his former assistant; he for the second time; in San Francisco...
While everyone interested in liberal education would wish the great ideas to be the main "toptics" of conversation across the land, grammarians would be happier if TIME had not misspelled the word last week. The key to the great ideas is the Syntopicon, not the Syntopticon...
...Menninger could have found more on the topic in Mortimer Adler's Syntopicon-four listings (v. 15 for faith, 22 for love...
...their contradictions, snubbed revered Educator John Dewey by spoofing pragmatism as bits of useful information at the price of wisdom. As a philosophy professor, he campaigned against universities' traditional system of departmentalization and specialization. As an author, he tried to summarize (in his The Great Ideas-a Syntopicon) the history of Western thought (to be found in the Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books of the Western World), to reduce man's search for wisdom to 102 basic ideas. For the last six years, as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco, Generalizer Adler...