All Outputs (3)

Virtuous condonation (2014)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2014). Virtuous condonation. Philosophical Papers, 43(4), 405-428. https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2014.976442

Moral philosophers have mostly condemned the condonation of a bad act as being close to complicity in wrongdoing or, at best, as indicative of a lax moral conscience. I argue, in contrast, that condoning a wrongful act is sometimes not only permissib... Read More about Virtuous condonation.

The ethics of digging (2014)
Book Chapter
Scarre, G. (2014). The ethics of digging. In C. Sandis (Ed.), Cultural Heritage Ethics: Between Theory and Practice (117-127). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0047

Lest we forget: how and why we should remember the Great War (2014)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2014). Lest we forget: how and why we should remember the Great War. Ethical Perspectives, 21(3), 321-344. https://doi.org/10.2143/ep.21.3.3044848

Because commemorations of historic events say as much about the present as the past, it is important to think carefully about how and why we should remember the Great War in the centenary year of its outbreak. Commemoration must not be allowed to deg... Read More about Lest we forget: how and why we should remember the Great War.