"It cannot be too often
repeated that philosophy is everybody’s business. To be a human
being is to be endowed with the proclivity to philosophize. To some
degree we all engage in philosophical thought in the course of our
daily lives. Acknowledging
this is not enough. It is also necessary to understand why this is so and what
philosophy’s business is. The answer, in a word, is ideas. In two words, it is
Great Ideas—the ideas basic and indispensable to understanding ourselves, our
society, and the world in which we live."Mortimer
Adler
