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Tanner Lectures on Human Values
vol.9

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Edited by Grethe B. Peterson
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ISBN 978-0-87480-326-6

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, founded July 1, 1978, at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, was established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner.

Lectureships are awarded to outstanding scholars or leaders in broadly defined fields of human values, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, or ideological distinctions.

Lectures

Laurence H. Tribe On Reading the Constitution
I. Choices and Constraints
II. Text and Tactic Postulates

Roger J. Bulger On Hippocrates, Thomas Jefferson, and Max Weber: The bureaucratic, Technologic Imperatives and the Future of the Healing Tradition in a Voluntary Society
I. The Hippocratic Theme
II. The bureaucratic Theme

Jon Elster Taming Chance: Randomization in Individual in Individual and Social Decisions

Gisela Striker Greek Ethics and Moral Theory

Van Zyl Slabbert The Dynamics of Reform and Revolt in Current South Africa
I. From Apartheid to Reform: The Ideological Preparation for the Total Onslaught
II. The Dynamics of Reform: Co-optive Domination—Sharing Power without Losing Any
III. The Dynamics of Reform: Patterns of Resistance and Revolt

Joseph Brodsky A place as Good as Any

Louis Blom-Cooper The Penalty of Imprisonment
I. Gaols and Goals:Setting the Trap
II. Conflicts in Criminal Justive: Caught in the Trap
Depopulating the Prisons: Escaping the Trap

Grethe Peterson is director of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. She lives in Park City, Utah.