The Great ideas
Subtitle: a syntopicon of Great books of the Western World
By: Mortimer J. Adler, editor in chief ; William Gorman, general editor.
Contributors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.
Series: Great books of the Western World -- 2-3.
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Published: 1952
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Other titles: Great books of the Western World.; Syntopicon of great books of the Western world.
Notes: Provides references to these topics in western literature, primarily European, including the Bible.

"Bibliography of additional readings": v. 2, p. 1143-1217.
Table of contents: title: v.1.  Angel - Animal - Aristocracy - Art - Astronomy - Beauty - Being - Cause - Chance - Change - Citizen - Constitution - Courage - Custom and Convention - Definition - Democracy - Desire - Dialectic - Duty - Education - Element - Emotion - Eternity - Evolution - Experience - Family - Fate - Form - God - Good and Evil - Government - Habit - Happiness - History - Honor - Hypothesis - Idea - Immortality - Induction - Infinity - Judgment - Justice - Knowledge - Labor - Language - Law - LIberty - Life and Death - Logic - Love.; title: v.2. Man - Mathematics - Matter - Mechanics - Medicine - Memory and Imagination - Metaphysics - Mind - Monarchy - Nature - Necessity and Contingency - Oligarchy - One and Many - Opinion - Opposition - Philosophy - Physics - Pleasure and Pain - Poetry - Principle - Progress - Prophecy - Prudence - Punishment - Quality - Quantity - Reasoning - Relation - Religion - Revolution - Rhetoric - Same and Other - Science - Sense - Sign and Symbol - Sin - Slavery - Soul - Space - State - Temperance - Theology - Time - Truth - Tryanny - Universal and Particular - Virtue and Vice - War and Peace - Wealth - Will - Wisdom - World.