Mortimer J. Adler facts for kids

Mortimer J. Adler
Quick facts for kids Mortimer J. Adler
	Adler while presiding over the Center for the Study of The Great Ideas
Born	Mortimer Jerome Adler ; December 28, 1902; New York City, U.S.
Died	June 28, 2001 (aged 98); San Mateo, California, U.S.
Education	Columbia University
Notable work	Aristotle for Everybody, How to Read a Book, A Syntopicon
Spouse(s)	Helen Leavenworth Boynton; (m. 1927; div. 1960) ; Caroline Sage Pring; (m. 1963; died 1998) ;
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Aristotelianism; Thomism;
Main interests	Philosophical theology, metaphysics, ethics
	Influences Aristotle, Aquinas, Berdyaev, James, Kelso, Locke, Maritain, Mill, Plato, Henri Bergson
	Influenced John Deely, Peter Kreeft

Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, and popular author. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He lived for long stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo, California. He taught at Columbia University and the University of Chicago, served as chairman of the Encyclopædia Britannica Board of Editors, and founded his own Institute for Philosophical Research.