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How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage (2023)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2023). How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage. International Journal of Cultural Property, 30(4), 379-395. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0940739124000079

This paper discusses some of the major ethical issues that arise in connection with the widespread holding of cultural heritage by private collectors. If, as many people believe, and UNESCO has affirmed, cultural heritage is, in some morally signific... Read More about How to Be a ‘Good’ Collector: Some Ethical Reflections on the Private Collecting of Cultural Heritage.

Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory (2023)
Book
Scarre, G. (2023). Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory. (1). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34511-1

This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural cir... Read More about Judging the Past: Ethics, History and Memory.