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Love

Mortimer Adler | love

When we ask for love, we don’t ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice… and begging or pleading for love.

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Love

Mortimer Adler | love

Love consists in giving without getting in return in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That’s why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.

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learning

Mortimer Adler | learning

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

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happiness

Mortimer Adler | happiness

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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friendship

Mortimer Adler | friendship

Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.

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friendship

Mortimer Adler | friendship

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

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friendship

Mortimer Adler | friendship

Aristotle uses a mother’s love for her child as the prime example of love or friendship.

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freedom

Mortimer Adler | freedom

Freedom is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.

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Faith

Mortimer Adler | faith

One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

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education

Mortimer Adler | education

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

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