The Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

Peter A. Redpath, Ph.D. (1974), SUNY at Buffalo, is retired Full Professor of Philosophy, St. John’s University, and author/editor/co-editor of sixteen philosophical books and dozens of articles and book reviews. His most important publication to date is his The Moral Psychology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Imelda Chłodna-Błach, dr. hab., John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, is presently Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Culture and Art at the Catholic University of Lublin. She is a member of the editorial board of Man in Culture journal and Annals of Cultural Studies. Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki, dr. hab., John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, is presently Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Culture and Art at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. Contributors are: Adam L. Barborich, Rafał Charzyński, Imelda Chłodna-Błach, Wojciech Daszkiewicz, Tomasz Duma, Maria Joanna Gondek, Arkadiusz Gudaniec, Piotr Jaroszyński, Joanna Kiereś-Łach, Jason Morgan, Marvin B. Daniel Peláez, Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki, Robert T. Ptaszek, Peter A. Redpath, Katarzyna Stępień.

Acknowledgments

Notes on Editors and Contributors



Introduction

  Peter A. Redpath



1 Reflections on Mortimer J. Adler’s Teachings about the Great Ideas of Religion and Freedom

  Piotr Jaroszyński



2 Free and Religious Actions as Semiotic Effects of the Great Ideas

  Maria Joanna Gondek



3 How Commonsense Philosophical Realism Influenced Mortimer J. Adler’s Teachings

  Joanna Kiereś-Łach



4 Becoming a Masterpiece of Unbending Will

  Artur Mamcarz-Plisiecki



5 Karol Wojtyła on Semiotically Expressing the Great Ideas of the True and the Good

  Arkadiusz Gudaniec



6 How the Great Ideas Can Help Resolve the Contemporary Decline of the West

  Wojciech Daszkiewicz



7 Some Contemporary Problems Obscuring the Greatness of the Great Ideas

  Katarzyna Stępień



8 Czesław Martyniak: The Great Ideas as Motivational Causes

  Rafał Charzyński



9 The Great Ideas: Causes of Human Transcendence or Enslavement?

  Tomasz Duma



10 Christianity: Friend or Foe of the Great Ideas?

  Robert T. Ptaszek



11 Semiotics of Organizational Leadership and Gateway Leadership Induction Technology (GATELIT)

  Marvin B. Daniel Peláez



12 Greatness of Character in Classical Confucianism

  Jason Morgan



13 The Great Ideas in the Noble Buddhist Doctrine of Liberation

  Adam L. Barborich



14 Mortimer J. Adler

 From Annoying Philosophical Bastard to Great Educational Reformer

  Imelda Chłodna-Błach



 Conclusion.

 “Leisure Is the Basis of Culture”: Was Josef Pieper Wrong?

  Peter A. Redpath



Index