Cé\;cile Fabre - \;Snatching Something From Death: \;Value\, Justice\, and Humankind&rsquo\;s Common Heritage
\nWhen Notre-Dame Cathedral was engulfed by fire on April 15\, 2019\, the world (it seemed) watched in horror. On Twitter\, Facebook\, in newspapers and on TV cables ranging as far afield from Paris as South Africa\, China and Chile\, people expressed their sorrow at the partial destruction of the church\, and retrospective anguish at the thought of what might very well have happened - the complete loss of a jewel of Gothic architecture whose value somehow transcends time and space. My aim in this lecture is to offer a philosophical account and defence of the view that there is such a thing as humankind's common heritage\, and that this heritage makes stringent moral demands on us. I first offer an account of the universal value of (some) heritage goods\, and then offer a conception of justice at the bar of which we owe it to one another\, but also to our ancestors and successors\, to preserve that heritage.
\nProfessor Cé\;cile Fabre is a Fellow of the British Academy\, Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College\, and Professor of Political Philosophy at Oxford University.
\nThe lecture will be chaired by Professor \;MM McCabe\, Fellow of the British Academy and Professor of Ancient Philosophy Emerita\, King&rsquo\;s College London.
\nThe Peace Lectures are due \;to Alan Lacey\, a life-long pacifist who taught philosophy at King&rsquo\;s College London for some fifteen years\, and who left a generous bequest \;to fund a lecture series promoting peace.
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