For someone not sensitive to the intricacies of ethical theory and
unwilling, to ponder the Freer points, this may all sound
strikingly like advice from Ann Landers, but the sharp philosophy
student will realize that it is essentially an expounding,
extension, and refinement of moral insights derived from
Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics in a twentieth Century context.
Adler's tract, based on his third series of Encyclopaedia
Britannica-Lectures at the University of Chicago, is a high-level
defense and development of seemingly simplistic common-sense
answers to questions like: "How can I make a really good life for
myself?"; "Is this a good time to be alive?"; "Is ours a good
society to be alive in?" The central idea is that age-old "pursuit
of happiness" but Adler imbues it with contemporary relevance by
assessing the ways in which the culture of a society encourages or
discourages efforts to make a good life (for a focus on the
political factors, wait for Adler's next book). So although, yes
indeed, this is a good time and a good society to be alive in,
there is still a need for a moral and educational revolution, one
must still work strenuously to rectify existing injustices through
radical social, economic, and political reform (but New Leftists
are lacking, in tree moral wisdom). Activists may be unmoved by the
Aristotelian putdown, but there should be a considerable audience
appreciative of this careful substantiation of enlightened common
sense. (Kirkus Reviews)
Is it a good time to be alive? Is ours a good society to be alive
in? Is it possible to have a good life in our time? And finally,
does a good life consist of having a good time? Are happiness and
"a good life" interchangeable? These are the questions that
Mortimer Adler addresses himself to. The heart of the book lies in
its conception of the good life for man, which provides the
standard for measuring a century, a society, or a culture: for upon
that turns the meaning of each man's primary moral right - his
right to the pursuit of happiness. The moral philosophy that Dr.
Adler expounds in terms of this conception he calls "the ethics of
common sense," because it is as a defense and development of the
common-sense answer to the question "can I really make a good life
for myself?"
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