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

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ISBN 10: 0521176476 ISBN 13: 9780521176477

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2011

Riassunto

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is the annual publication of the Tanner lectures given at Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Brasenose College, Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale University, the University of California; Stanford University, the University of Michigan; and the University of Utah and other locations. Established to reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values, the lectureships are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions. Appointment as a Tanner lecturer is a recognition of uncommon capabilities and outstanding scholarly or leadership achievement in the field of human values. In Volume VI, originally published in 1985, responsibility is a recurring theme; responsibility toward ideas and ideals as well as toward society.

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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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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0521176476
• ISBN 13: 9780521176477
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 222
• Redattore: McMurrin Sterling M.