New Views Of The Nature Of Man.

PLATT, JOHN R. (EDITOR.

4493X1 Third Impression - 1970. University of Chicago Press, Chicago: 1965. 152 pages. Softcover. reading copy. The object of these essays - based on a series of lectures known as The Monday Lectures given in the Spring of 1965 at the University of Chicago - is to provoke a new discussion of the nature of man and his biological, intellectual, and social potentialities. The lecturers and their subjects were Willard F. Libby - "Man's Place in the Physical Universe"; George Wald - "Determinacy, Individuality, and the Problem of Free Will"; Derek J. de Solla Price - "The Science of Science"; Roger W. Sperry - "Mind, Brain, and Humanist Values"; Clifford Geertz - "The Impact of the Concept of Culture on the Concept of Man"; and James M. Redfield - "The Sense of Crisis." Includes an Index. ISBN: 0226670813 $26.35USD
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