Beauty (Six Great Ideas with Bill Moyers and Mortimer Adler episode 2) (1982) (no video link)
Title
Beauty (Six Great Ideas with Bill Moyers and Mortimer Adler episode 2) (1982) (no video link)
Subject
Broadcasting
Discussion
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
Description
Content Description from BillMoyers.com (https://billmoyers.com/series/six-great-ideas-bill-moyers-mortimer-adler/) :
In the early 1980s, Mortimer J. Adler conducted an annual seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of Western civilization’s six greatest philosophical concepts: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty – the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice – the ideas we act on.
The group discussions and conversations between Dr. Adler and journalist Bill Moyers were filmed for broadcast on public television, and thousands of people followed their exploration of these important ideas. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the speciialist. He argues that “philosophy is everybody’s business,” and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral and social issues that confront us daily.
Ephemera: Available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. TV Schedule with notes.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
In the early 1980s, Mortimer J. Adler conducted an annual seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education and the arts joined him in an in-depth consideration of Western civilization’s six greatest philosophical concepts: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty – the ideas we judge by; and Liberty, Equality and Justice – the ideas we act on.
The group discussions and conversations between Dr. Adler and journalist Bill Moyers were filmed for broadcast on public television, and thousands of people followed their exploration of these important ideas. Discarding the out-worn and off-putting jargon of academia, Dr. Adler dispels the myth that philosophy is the exclusive province of the speciialist. He argues that “philosophy is everybody’s business,” and that a better understanding of these fundamental concepts is essential if we are to cope with the political, moral and social issues that confront us daily.
Ephemera: Available through the CCDR Collections at Arizona State University. TV Schedule with notes.
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Wayne Ewing (producer)
Bill Moyers (interviewer)
Mortimer Adler (interviewee)
Publisher
WNET/Channel 13
Date
1982
Citation
“Beauty (Six Great Ideas with Bill Moyers and Mortimer Adler episode 2) (1982) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 16, 2025, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/192.