Provides the guidelines that set up a ladder of learning to be scaled step by step in a lifelong pursuit of the understanding that leads to wisdom.

On t.p.: A compendium of important statements on man and his institutions by the great thinkers in western history.

Adler's 53rd book explores philosophy--its relation to and difference from other disciplines, such as history, mathematics, empirical science, and even poetry--and acts as an extension of the author's classic works on the conditions that that make philosophy workable.

Previously published: New York : Macmillan, 1992.