Jeremy Waldron - Dignity, Rank, and Rights

• The Tanner Lectures on Human Values were established by the American scholar, industrialist, and philanthropist Obert Clark Tanner; they are presented annually at nine universities in the United States and England. The University of California, Berkeley became a permanent host of annual Tanner Lectures in the academic year 20002001. This work is the seventh in a series of books based on the Berkeley Tanner Lectures. The volumes include a revised version of the lectures that Jeremy Waldron presented at Berkeley in April 2009, together with the responses of the three invited commentators on that occasionWai Chee Dimock, Don Herzog, and Michael Rosenand a final rejoinder by Professor Waldron. The volumes are edited by Meir Dan-Cohen, who also contributes an introduction. The Berkeley Tanner Lecture Series was established in the belief that these distinguished lectures, together with the lively debates stimulated by their presentation in Berkeley, deserve to be made available to a wider audience. Additional volumes are in preparation.

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• Dignity, Rank, and Rights by Jeremy Waldron was delivered as a Tanner Lecture on Human Values
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• Waldron, Jeremy.

• Dignity, rank, and rights / Jeremy Waldron ; with commentaries by Wai Chee Dimock, Don Herzog, Michael Rosen ; edited and introduced by Meir Dan-Cohen.p. cm.

• Delivered as a Tanner lecture on human values at the University of California, Berkeley, April 21, 2009 and April 22, 2009T.p. verso.

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

• ISBN 978-0-19-991543-9 (alk. paper)

• 1.Philosophical anthropology.2.Dignity.3.Civil rights.4.Human rights.I.Dan-Cohen, Meir.II.Title.

• BD450.W233 2012

• 128.3dc23 2012000941

• 135798642
• Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper