Tanner Lectures on Human Values - Lectures on Human Value

Klappentext A prestigious series of lectures that are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions. Zusammenfassung Established to reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values! the Tanner Lectures are given annually at various universities around the world. Volume II examines the sources of our values! seeking in our own experience the resources that will enable us to understand our society more fully. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; The founding trustees; The advisory commission; Preface to Volume II; 1. Arms control and peace research Raymond Aron; 2. So countries have moral obligations? The case of world poverty Brian Barry; 3. Morality and consequences Jonathan Bennett; 4. Children as moral observers Robert Coles; 5. Economics or ethics George J. Stiegler; 6. The twilight of self-reliance: frontier values and contemporary America Wallace Stegner; 7. Omnes et singulatim: towards a criticism of 'political reason' Michel Foucault; The Tanner Lecturers.

Product details

• Authors: McMurrin, Sterling M. McMurrin
• Assisted by: Sterling M. McMurrin (Editor), McMurrin Sterling M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521176422
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17642-2
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Tanner Lectures in Human Value; Tanner Lectures in Human Values; The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 10 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy