![]() Adler soon returned to school to take writing classes at night where he discovered the works of men he would come to call heroes: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, John Stuart Mill and others. ![]() He dropped out of school at age 14 to become a copy boy for the New York Sun, with the ultimate aspiration to become a journalist. He worked for Columbia University, the University of Chicago, Encyclopædia Britannica, and Adler's own Institute for Philosophical Research.Īdler was born in New York City on December 28, 1902, to Jewish immigrants. He lived for the longest stretches in New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, and San Mateo. ![]() As a philosopher he worked with Aristotelian and Thomistic thought. Mortimer Jerome Adler was an American educator, philosopher, and popular author. ![]()
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