The Tanner lectures on human values vol. 6 /

Gordiner, Nadine

The Tanner lectures on human values vol. 6 / Nadine Gordiner ... [et al.] ; edited by Sterling M. McMurrin. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - 208 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes index.

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 Lectures, created to reflect on scholarly and scientific insights into human values, are presented annually at universities across the globe. Volume VI, first published in 1985, centers around the theme of responsibility, focusing on one's duty toward ideas, ideals, and society.

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