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. Volume 31 features lectures given during the academic year 2010-2011 at Yale University, The University of Utah, The University of Michigan, Stanford University, Princeton University, and Harvard University.

Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950-; Lee, Spike; Neiman, Susan; Ostrom, Elinor; Putnam, Robert D; Scott, James C; Seligman, Martin E. P; Smith, Susan J; Matheson, Mark

Utah State Historical Society

United States, United States of America

Some texts are skewed

x, 293 pages : 25 cm
Includes lectures delivered during the academic year 2010-11
Includes bibliographical references
The ancient quarrel: philosophy and literature. Lecture 1. Morality and literature ; Lecture 2. Metaphysics and literature / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- America through my lens: the evolving nature of race and class in the films of Spike Lee / Spike Lee -- Victims and heroes / Susan Neiman -- Lecture 1. Frameworks ; Lecture 2. Analyzing one-hundred-year old irrigation puzzles / Elinor Ostrom -- American Grace. Lecture 1. Americans are religiously devout and divided, yet tolerant. Why? ; Lecture 2. Religious Americans are better neighbors and citizens, though less tolerant. Why? / Robert Putnam -- Four domestications: fire, plants, animals, and ... us. Lecture 1. The late-neolithic multispecies resettlement camp. ; Lecture 2. The long golden age of barbarians, a. k. a. nonstate peoples / James Scott -- Flourish: positive psychology and positive interventions / Martin Seligman -- Care-full markets: miracle or mirage? Lecture 1. Moral maze: dealings in debt ; Lecture 2. Ethical investment? Attending to assets / Susan J. Smith

2023-06-28