Mortimer J. Adler ★ Speaks about happiness.

[@travisireland7276]

In the throes of quitting cigarettes and trying to adopt virtuous habits, this video is exactly what I needed to see.

[@palorizzi5]

It's a big shame that such a useful video receives few viewers whereas junk videos receive millions of viewers.It only depicts the stupidity of the 21th century.I commend everyone here and keep it up.

[@armisse]

So much agree!

[@skanderabdellaoui]

I agree 100%

[@eastcoastenzo3654]

Write the ADLER estate online and tell them! I have. They need to wake up.

[@myratogonon]

Thank u I just discovered who this man is

[@brotendo]

No, dumbass. It's been like this since the beginning of time. Most people would want to be entertained, rather than informed. Your comment is just stupid and arrogant.

[@jt2465]

It is such a great lecture. Clear and concise and deep. The delivery and presentation is old school but effective. Nothing fancy. Yet, it is tapping on the most primitive of our souls. Do you have a complete series? Thank you for posting. Prof. Adler was/is and will be a gift to us all.

[@jaikishansmspl39]

Excellent video.

[@theopoulos7810]

Thank you for posting this! What a remarkable presentation!

[@ebaamomani1221]

Thanks, as always, Mortiner Adler!

[@QuixoticOdyssey]

thanks for uploading

[@josemaria809]

wow. this is awesome!!

[@JoelEverettComposer]

Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@eastcoastenzo3654]

Fantastic! Thank you! MORE!

[@JVB1234]

Thank you for this. Very important resource!

[@vanessa271]

I'm not ambitious enough to seek happiness. Rather, I think seeking to avoid misery is sufficient for my life.

[@TheGringoSalado]

Has nothing to do with ambition. It’s what you’re made for. Through Faith Hope and Love. God’s blessings 🙏🙏

[@roisinpatriciagaffney4087]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@KouhoShikan]

Great video for people who feel hard reading Aristotle (like me) but wonder what happiness is and how can we attain happiness

[@barriefeatherstone9397]

+Kouho Shikan a125403424 Adler is the greatest teacher the west produced in the 20th century.

[@profd65]

That's very doubtful.

[@dealstogo2649]

Thank you for uploading this and sharing it. Does anyone happen to know where the pleasant background music is from? It is very conducive to think about what Mr Adler is saying and ponder it as well as other serious issues. Thanks.

[@petergilbert8550]

The melody that is heard at the beginning and end of the video is the Hymn of Seikilos, or the Seikilos Epitaph. It is one of the few pieces of music from Ancient Greece which we have in its entirety. There is a useful article on it in the Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seikilos_epitaph

[@harshgautam6160]

kindly mention the name of the programme viewer from india

[@cacophonic7]

A friend: "Good game, isn't it?" Me, having watched this video: "Actually Aristotle tells us that until the game is over, I cannot say it WAS a good game..." A now ex-friend: "Jesus Christ man, I was just trying to make small talk"

[@elaineweismann8288]

These mortimer adler videos belong to Encyclopedia brittanica

[@shrt3569]

للي جاي من كلاس امير الجامعه العربيه المفتوحه لايك👋🏻 لعيون احلى دكتور

[@nickowens5621]

The weird upper class "East Coast Aristocracy" aka "Trans-Atlantic Accent" is on display here when the narrator or the actors speak. President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife Eleanor were the among the last public figures to speak American English in that way. I would guess that this film was made in the 1950's, by which time the style was already on it's way out.

[@ClearOutSamskaras]

"the style was on it's way out" The Trans-Atlantic Accent was not a real accent then but rather a conscious put on?

[@remainuntam0]

What’s weird about it? People spoke much better in those days. Nowadays our intellectual men speak like uptalking valley girls. This was much better. This is your take away from this video?

[@bleacherz7503]

It might ruffle a few feathers, but it’s far superior than that of Staten Island

[@bobbywimsy6741]

@@ClearOutSamskaras It was an affected emulation of what certain Anglo-Americans thought English people sound like. It was even evident in Jane Wyatt's rendering of dialog in Father Knows Best. Her pronunciation of the r's such as in work or first were of this nature. It's apparently related to northern New Jersey and Manhattan. Former Governor Tom Kean of New Juhsey(Jersey) spoke that way.

[@practice4089]

Even great minds like Adler and Aristotle are susceptible to false notions of well-being. not only is happiness overrated (however you define it) it's also fleeting. Being calm...that is the state of being worth pursuing more than any other. It doesn't require all the external pieces of the disparate puzzles of existence to fall into place (luck). it's not dependent on the vicissitudes of life and good fortune, as is happiness. Aristotle's whole-life definition of happiness does not change a single thing about this. Adler also mistakenly believed in the existence of god...a fantasy people have ruinously pursued time and time again. This false notion is the greatest threat to well-being that humanity has ever invented. Be calm my friends!

[@thomasd2444]

Being calm requires everything you need to be calm

[@elaineweismann8288]

And the center for the study of the great ideas.his website.u have no righr to publish thus without paying.i have notified both sources

[@AxmedBahjad]

This documentary is based on what the narrator thinks of the teachings of Aristotle! Would you accept that without questioning? What would your take of the teachings of Aristotle be? Stand on your feet; think for yourself. When you read a book or watch a documentary, don't just accept what the author or narrator thinks. Ask yourself - what do I think of it?

[@anythingentertaining1075]

Axmed Bahjad by telling us to think for ourselves and we do so, is that really thinking for ourselves?

[@knpstrr]

@@anythingentertaining1075 Yes.

[@mumsaccount5507]

knpstrr not in the very least... also, in my opinion, he who doesn’t possess the skills to differentiate right from wrong should follow someone who possesses them, because of what Confucius said- Thinking without learning is dangerous.

[@miguelconfesor4701]

@@mumsaccount5507 that is very true. Excellent point

[@mumsaccount5507]

Miguel Confesor haha re-reading a year old comment by me was pleasantly shocking for me... I learnt something I’d long forgotten... I’d like to add a stanza by Hesiod which Aristotle quotes in his Nicomachean Ethics- Far best is he who knows all things himself; Good, he that hearkens when men counsel right; But he who neither knows, nor lays to heart Another’s wisdom, is a useless wight.

[@thefakenewsnetwork8072]

Long live communism and freedom

[@thomasd2444]

K-Marx made a mistake when he thought that eliminating private property was a good idea.

[@JesusMartinez-xd3ip]

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