person
also known as Adler
The American philosopher and editor behind the Great Books of the Western World and its index, the Syntopicon. He enters the series as Syntopic's namesake. Episode 01, at about 11 and a half minutes.
Across the episodes
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Enters as the namesake: the editor whose index of ideas Syntopic is named after
Introduced as the source of the company's name: a mid-century American philosopher whose canon project supplied the model for indexing ideas across authors.
"his name was Mortimer Adler and he created what's called the great books series where he was he sought to sort of create a compendium of all the greatest thought in western civilization"Chad Nantais, Syntopic, Episode 1 (11 Oct 2026), 11:46
Connections
createdSyntopicon
Adler's index to the Great Books.