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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Volume 1: 1980
Sterling M. McMurrin
April 2011
1. 1980
Paperback
9780521176415
AUD$54.50
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Paperback

    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. This first volume of lectures, originally published in 1980, explores valuation on many levels of our physical and intellectual environments.

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    April 2011
    Paperback
    9780521176415
    270 pages
    234 × 156 × 14 mm
    0.38kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
    • The founding trustees
    • The advisory commission
    • Preface to Volume I
    • 1. The search for an environmental ethic Eric Ashby
    • 2. Comparative social theory Edward O. Wilson
    • 3. The limits of objectivity Thomas Nagel
    • 4. Three worlds Karl Popper
    • 5. Moral conflicts R. M. Hare
    • 6. Equality of what? Amartya Sen
    • 7. Voluntary euthanasia and the inalienable right to life Joel Feinberg.
      Contributors
    • Eric Ashby, Edward O. Wilson, Thomas Nagel, Karl Popper, R. M. Hare, Amartya Sen, Joel Feinberg

    • Editor
    • Sterling M. McMurrin