Tanner Lectures on Human Values
vol.21
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on, and Stroud
Edited by Grethe B. Peterson
300pp., 6x9
Cloth $35.00
ISBN 978-0-87480-653-3
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.
CONTENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS:
Elaine Scarry On Beauty and Being Just
Michael J. Sandel What Money Can’t buy: The moral Limits of Markets
Walter Burkert Revealing Nature Amidst Multiple Cultures: A Discourse with Ancient Greeks
Geoffrey Hartman Text and Spirit
Steven Pinker The Blank Slate, the Noble Savage, and the Ghost in the Machine
Richard White The Problem with Purity
Sidney Verba Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings
Grethe Peterson is director of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values. She lives in Park City, Utah.
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