[SydPhil] Invitation: Justice Talks with Raimond Gaita

Mon Aug 18 14:36:00 AEST 2014

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UNSW Law invites you to the 2014 Justice Talks lecture, delivered by

Philosopher and award-winning writer

Raimond Gaita
The idea of a common humanity,
and the universality of international criminal law.
Date:   Thursday September 4, 2014 from 6pm
Where:  Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building,
UNSW Kensington Campus
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About the lecture
It is believed by many, that the philosophical/jurisprudential elaboration of what it means for the peoples of the earth to share common humanity yields a universal basis for morality and for international criminal law.  They believe it would yield, for example, the universal ethical meaning of what it is for a crime to be a crime against humanity. The concept of humanity that is at play here is ethically loaded, as it is when we speak of seeing or failing to see the full humanity of another person or peoples. The philosophical task, therefore, is to try to understand the significance of that loading.
Professor Gaita will argue that it is a mistake to seek that understanding in highly general principles abstracted from the historically and culturally contingent idioms in which peoples of the earth express their sense of what it means to have been wronged by a breach of international criminal law. Showing why we will better understand the kind of universality appropriate even to international criminal law if we compare it to the universality of great literature, translated, not into a common language like Esperanto, but from one natural language into another.
About the speaker
Raimond Gaita is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and the Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Gaita's books, which have been widely translated, include: Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception;Romulus, My Father, which was made into a feature film of the same name; A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love & Truth & Justice; The Philosopher's Dog; Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics, After Romulus,  and, as editor and contributor, Gaza: Morality Law and Politics, Muslims and Multiculturalism and (with Alex Miller and Alex Skovron) Singing for all he’s Worth: Essays in Honour of J.G Rosenberg.

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With Raimond Gaita
Date: Friday, 5th September 2014
Time: 12.30pm - 2pm
Venue: Staff common room, Level 2, UNSW Law
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