Third Annual Kate Pretty Lecture

Thu 9 May 2019

Homerton College, Cambridge

Named in recognition of Dr Kate Pretty, former Principal of Homerton, the lecture series provides a platform for speakers from a diverse range of disciplines. Baroness O'Neill will speak on 'Justice without Ethics', exploring the ways in which the two concepts have been conflated and diverged from each other.

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception for all attendees in the Great Hall.

Onora writes: "For centuries discussions of justice and ethics were seen as linked domains of duty in European thought and culture. In the twentieth century they were seen as diverging in marked, interesting and unsettling ways. There is now widespread acceptance that justice is a matter of respect for objectively justified human rights, but that other ethical standards lack wider justification and reflect either individual choice or shared standards. I shall argue that this view offers inadequate accounts both of justice and of other ethical standards."

Cost: Free