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The University Center for Human Values Series by Charles Margrave Taylor

18 primary works • 18 total works
These books, based on the prestigious Tanner Lectures given each year at Princeton University by leading thinkers across the humanities and social sciences, explore a wide range of topics and their relation to human values.

Published by Princeton University Press
Multiculturalism
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3.78 · 566 Ratings · 38 Reviews · published 1992 · 39 editions
A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multicu…

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    Freedom of Association
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · published 1998 · 3 editions
    Americans are joiners. They are members of churche…

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    Work and Welfare
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    4.25     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1998 · 7 editions
    The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow dir…

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    Truth V. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions
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    3.15     · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2000 · 8 editions
    The truth commission is an increasingly common fix…

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    Goodness and Advice
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    3.25     · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    How should we live? What do we owe to other people…

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    Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry
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    3.64     · 181 Ratings · 14 Reviews · published 2001 · 19 editions
    Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experienc…

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    Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry
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    3.67     · 64 Ratings · 8 Reviews · published 2002 · 9 editions
    The place of poetry in modern democracy is no plac…

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    The Limits of Constitutional Democracy
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2010 · 6 editions
    Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing …

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    Striking First: Preemption and Prevention in International Conflict
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    3.64     · 22 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2008 · 11 editions
    Does the United States have the right to defend it…

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    Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
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    3.56     · 447 Ratings · 71 Reviews · published 2010 · 9 editions
    A fresh reflection on what makes life meaningful

    Mo…

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    Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved
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    3.81     · 1342 Ratings · 91 Reviews · published 2006 · 1 edition
    "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've …

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    The Lives of Animals
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    3.69     · 3694 Ratings · 352 Reviews · published 1999 · 20 editions
    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes n…

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    Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives
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    3.96     · 816 Ratings · 140 Reviews · published 2017 · 6 editions
    Why our workplaces are authoritarian private gover…

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    Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve
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    3.69     · 328 Ratings · 57 Reviews · published 2015 · 18 editions
    Most people in the world today think democracy and…

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    A Different Kind of Animal: How Culture Transformed Our Species
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    3.95     · 58 Ratings · 6 Reviews · 3 editions
    How our ability to learn from each other has been …

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    A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law
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    3.87     · 933 Ratings · 82 Reviews · published 1997 · 29 editions
    We are all familiar with the image of the immensel…

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    Why Trust Science?
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    3.86     · 729 Ratings · 103 Reviews · published 2019 · 15 editions
    Why the social character of scientific knowledge m…

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    The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power under the Constitution
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    4.32     · 28 Ratings · 3 Reviews · 3 editions
    Vital perspectives for the divided Trump era on wh…

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