NP art or the artist - interesting article on Mortimer Adler

[Doug Millison]

Adler is asking here not to be judged by his life but by his works. "An
interest in human beings is one thing; an interest in thought another; and
one should not be allowed to get in the way of the other," he wrote as a
young man in an attack on Will Durant's The Story of Philosophy. Yet,
despite Adler's admonitions, would anyone doubt it matters that Nietzsche
went mad or that Socrates accepted his unjust death with serenity? In
Adler's case, his own lack of interest in human beings and their
idiosyncrasies destroys much of what passes for his philosophy, especially
his educational philosophy. 
http://www.weeklystandard.com/magazine/mag_6_42_01/epstein_bkart_6_42_01.asp