The Tanner Lectures on Human Values VI: Volume 6 - Brossura

 
9780521176477: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values VI: Volume 6

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A prestigious series of lectures that are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions.

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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.

Contenuti

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.

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