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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values

Volume 3: 1982
Sterling M. McMurrin
April 2011
3. 1982
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    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 III, originally published in 1982, lecturers from several fields explore the possibilities for the practical application of a number of theoretical approaches to the towering problems of values and the challenges of modern society.

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    April 2011
    Paperback
    9780521176439
    310 pages
    234 × 156 × 16 mm
    0.44kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
    • The founding trustees
    • The advisory commission
    • Preface to Volume III
    • 1. The basic liberties and their priority John Rawls
    • 2. Is liberty possible? Charles Fried
    • 3. The representative arts as a source of truth John Passmore
    • 4. A writer from Chicago Saul Bellow
    • 5. Drugs and the brain and society Solomon H. Snyder
    • 6. The arms race Joan Robinson
    • The Tanner Lecturers
    • Index of names.
      Contributors
    • John Rawls, Charles Fried, John Passmore, Saul Bellow, Solomon H. Snyder, Joan Robinson

    • Editor
    • Sterling M. McMurrin