ABSTRACT

International conservation codes ask practitioners to treat historical objects and buildings with ‘respect’. What does this mean? The question has received comparatively little theoretical treatment in conservation literature. Taking a philosophical stance on the issue, this paper suggests that we cannot grasp how respect delineates ethical obligations for professionals in the field if we do not unearth the sources of these obligations, i.e. what counts as respectful behaviour and to whom respect is owed in the first place. Questioning the widespread understanding of respect as ‘preservation of the object’s integrity’, it proposes a model in which respect is interpreted as a form of preservation of meaning. On this model, respect is directed not so much to the artefact itself, but to the person, community, or culture that take interest in it, those for whom the object is especially meaningful.

摘要

国际保护法规要求从业者以“尊重”的态度对待历史文物和建筑物。这是什么意思？这个问题在保护文献中得到的理论处理相对较少。本文从哲学立场出发，认为如果我们不挖掘这些义务的来源，即什么是尊重行为，以及在该领域应该尊重谁，我们就无法理解尊重是如何界定该领域专业人士的道德义务的。第一名。它质疑对尊重被广泛理解为“保护对象完整性”的普遍理解，它提出了一个模型，其中尊重被解释为一种保存意义的形式。在这个模型中，尊重不是针对人工制品本身，而是针对对它感兴趣的人、社区或文化，