Tanner Lectures on Human Values

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. In Volume VI! originally published in 1985! responsibility is a recurring theme; responsibility toward ideas and ideals as well as toward society. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Tanner Lectures on Human Values; The trustees; The advisory commission; Preface to Volume VI; 1. The essential gesture: writers and responsibility Nadine Gordimer; 2. Music and ideology in the nineteenth century Leonard B. Meyer; 3. Challenges to neo-Darwinism and their meaning for a revised view of human consciousness Stephen Jay Gould; 4. The impact of modern genetics Donald D. Brown; 5. Of human freedom Georg Henrik von Wright; 6. The future of the Atlantic Alliance Helmut Schmidt; The Tanner Lecturers; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Sterling M. McMurrin
• Assisted by: Sterling M. McMurrin (Editor), McMurrin Sterling M. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521176477
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17647-7
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Tanner Lectures in Human Value; Tanner Lectures in Human Values; The Tanner Lectures on Human Values 10 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism