The Tanner lectures on human values
By: Pagels [and others] ; Grethe B. Peterson, editor
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780585305493
Subjects: Values; Ethics; Adaptation (Biology); Philosophy; Ecology; Euthenics; Nature and nurture; Morale; Adaptation (Biologie); Philosophie; Écologie; Euthénie; Hérédité et milieu; Ethics (philosophy); SOCIAL SCIENCE; Methodology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The origin of satan in Christian traditions  -- Elaine Pagels; title: The end of the ancient other world: death and afterlife between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages  -- Peter Brown; title: Ideas of power: China's empire in the eighteenth century and today  -- Jonathan D. Spence; title: The lives of animals  -- J.M. Coetzee; title: Exploring the minded brain  -- Antonio R. Damasio; title: The direction of European history  -- Timothy Garton Ash; title: Culture and society in Plato's Republic  -- M.F. Burnyeat; title: The idol of stability  -- Stephen Toulmin; title: Experience and its moral modes: culture, human conditions, and disorder  -- Arthur Kleinman; title: The tanner lecturers.