A wonderful series of lectures endowed by a remarkable inventor, entrepreneur (and philosopher).
In 1927 in his mother’s basement, Obert Tanner began an industrial enterprise that has become the largest firm of its kind in the United States. The O.C. Tanner Company, manufacturing jewelers specializing in corporate recognition awards, forms the material base for the extensive Tanner philanthropies.
As a university professor, Tanner emphasized moral philosophy and the philosophy of religion. He is widely known in academic circles for his passionate advocacy and defense of intellectual freedom. Tanner’s heroes are Socrates and Jesus. From the one he took the belief that the unexamined life is not worth living; from the other he learned compassion for human suffering and an unyielding hope for an eventual human felicity.
The lecturers are a mix of scientists (of all kinds), writers, commentators and philosophers (again, of all kinds). This is the full list, in alphabetical order.Popper is there, with a talk on the third world of objective knowledge. This is the only piece of Popper on this topic that is on line. There is more of Popper on line in the Questia Library, which has the full text of Unended Quest, The Poverty of Historicism, The Logic of Scientific Discovery and Conjectures and Refutations.
Another of my favorite people is there as well, the psychologist Liam Hudson, with two great lectures on the life of the mind.
