RLP Holiday: Memory & The Philosophers

G. K. Chesterton wrote that, “if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. […] If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.” In other words, if want to remember something, if you want others to remember something, then you cannot leave it alone. You must remember. In this Memorial Day episode of Red Letter Philosophy, we look at the thoughts of three philosophers on the nature and importance of memory.