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 IV examines modern society from several of philosophical and practical points of view! and all are optimistic concerning the possibility of our continued growth and survival. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; The founding trustees; The advisory commission; Preface to Volume IV; 1. The voluntary society Kingman Brewer; 2. Ethics, law and the exercise of self command Thomas C. Schelling; 3. Bombs and poetry Freeman Dyson; 4. Biological determinism R. C. Lewontin; 5. Psychiatry and morality Alan A. Stone; 6. The death of utopia reconsidered Leszek Kolakowski; The Tanner Lecturers; Index of names.

Product details

• Authors: 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: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521176453
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17645-3
• No. of pages: 266
• 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