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Frowe and Matravers argue that the value of protecting heritage in war needs to be balanced against the need to safeguard other goods, including human life. Heritage is not morally special; rather, heritage is one of many goods that contribute to individuals' lives going well.
List of contents
- 1: Heritage Protection and the Ethics of War
- 2: Conflicts in Heritage Protection
- 3: Instrumental Justifications for Risky Heritage Protection
- 4: The Intrinsic Value of Heritage
- 5: Imposing Risks on Civilians
- 6: Combatants, Consent, and Contracts
- 7: Combatants and the Incurring of Risks
- 8: Lethal Defence of Heritage
- 9: Compensation for Damaged Heritage
- 10: Conclusions
About the author
Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Knut and Alice Wallenberg Scholar at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She is the author of Defensive Killing (OUP, 2014) and The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge, 2022) and co-editor of Heritage in War: Ethical Issues (OUP, 2023), The Oxford Handbook of Ethics of War (OUP, 2018) and How We Fight: Ethics in War (2014). She was the recipient of the 2019 Marc Sanders Prize in Political Philosophy. Between 2017-2020, she was co-investigator on the AHRC-funded Heritage in War project.
Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written Art and Emotion (OUP, 1998), Introducing Philosophy of Art: Eight Case Studies (Routledge, 2013); Fiction and Narrative (OUP, 2014); and Empathy (Polity, 2017). He is the author of numerous articles in aesthetics, ethics, and the philosophy of mind. His edits, with Paloma Atencia-Linares, The British Journal of Aesthetics.
Summary
Frowe and Matravers argue that the value of protecting heritage in war needs to be balanced against the need to safeguard other goods, including human life. Heritage is not morally special; rather, heritage is one of many goods that contribute to individuals' lives going well.
