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In praise of forgetting
Ethics (philosophy)
Collective memory
National characteristics
History, philosophy
Group identity
Morale
Memory
Ethics
Philosophie
Philosophy
New York Times reviewed
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"The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana’s celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an in…
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