第二次世界大战结束后不久,温斯顿·丘吉尔说道:“我们必须拉下幕布盖住过去所有令人恐怖的事件。”大约在同一时期,美国哲学家乔治·桑坦亚纳发出警告,大意是说:“那些忘记过去的人必定会重复历史。”自那时以来,这一警句经常被人复述。对于我们当中那些经历过20世纪痛苦的人来说,这两句语重心长的话哪一句更有益呢?我们该怎么办,是忘却还是记住呢?这两种作法只是表面上显得矛盾。记忆,顾名思义总归是忘记 Soon after the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill said: “We must pull down the curtain and cover all the terrible events of the past.” Around the same time, the American philosopher George Santitanar issued The warning is to mean: “Those who forget the past must repeat history.” Since then, this epigram has often been repeated. For those of us who have experienced the pain of the 20th century, what is more useful for these two sentences? What should we do to forget or remember? These two practices are only apparently contradictory. Memory, as the name suggests is always forgotten