Memory and remembering are important for any individual. If people did not have the ability to remember the things they learn, the result would be learning or experiencing the same things every day because one cannot retain what has been learned before. People have different methods that they use to help them remember their different experiences and what they have learned. Nietzsche and Arendt have put forward their explanations on the roles of memory and remembering. Memory refers to the ability to store information in the human brain and recall that information in the future. Memory has the ability to influence the manner in which people behave in the present. By remembering what one has learned, the individual does not need to learn the
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It is not true that the experiences that people go through determine if what they do is wrong or right. If that were the case, then the issue of what is morality would be very broad given that different people go through different experiences. According to Arendt "morality cannot exist in this fashion because as it would simply be too subjective" (Arendt 124). When an issue is considered to be subjective, it means that that issue changes as time changes, as people go to different places and also changes depending on the particular individual. Therefore, memory and remembering does not require a bad or painful experience for one to refrain from wrongdoing, but instead it is derived from the origin or morality, which is religion. Human behavior is guided by the rules that are “directly revealed as in the Ten Commandments or indirectly as in natural laws” (Arendt and Kohn 152). The implication here is that morality cannot simply appear randomly. Different people should not remember morality differently. Instead, it was created that everyone operates under a universal …show more content…
The fact that humans have the ability to remember is the distinguishing factor between them and the animals. People remember things if they are repeatedly reminded of them, but what people remember most is whatever experiences they had that hurt them. According to Nietzsche, “the most powerful aid to memory was pain” (Nietzsche 43). In addition, to pain being a good reminder, Nietzsche also points out the issue of memory when it comes to making promises. In a case where promises have been made, “forgetfulness is in certain cases suspended” (Nietzsche 40) so that fulfilling the promises becomes possible. He believes that making promises results in people dwelling so much on the past because the one making the promise has to ensure that the promise is kept. He believed that by making a promise, it is at that point that is the "making of a memory for the man who promises" (Nietzsche 45). Therefore, memory acts as a good reminder to prevent individuals from wrongdoing and helps in the construction of the values that a community holds. Nietzsche also believed that some people purposefully forget the things that happened in their lives. In this case, memory is not just focused on remembering, but also forgetting those things that one considers to have negative effects on the person. People try to forget things that had
It is not true that the experiences that people go through determine if what they do is wrong or right. If that were the case, then the issue of what is morality would be very broad given that different people go through different experiences. According to Arendt "morality cannot exist in this fashion because as it would simply be too subjective" (Arendt 124). When an issue is considered to be subjective, it means that that issue changes as time changes, as people go to different places and also changes depending on the particular individual. Therefore, memory and remembering does not require a bad or painful experience for one to refrain from wrongdoing, but instead it is derived from the origin or morality, which is religion. Human behavior is guided by the rules that are “directly revealed as in the Ten Commandments or indirectly as in natural laws” (Arendt and Kohn 152). The implication here is that morality cannot simply appear randomly. Different people should not remember morality differently. Instead, it was created that everyone operates under a universal …show more content…
The fact that humans have the ability to remember is the distinguishing factor between them and the animals. People remember things if they are repeatedly reminded of them, but what people remember most is whatever experiences they had that hurt them. According to Nietzsche, “the most powerful aid to memory was pain” (Nietzsche 43). In addition, to pain being a good reminder, Nietzsche also points out the issue of memory when it comes to making promises. In a case where promises have been made, “forgetfulness is in certain cases suspended” (Nietzsche 40) so that fulfilling the promises becomes possible. He believes that making promises results in people dwelling so much on the past because the one making the promise has to ensure that the promise is kept. He believed that by making a promise, it is at that point that is the "making of a memory for the man who promises" (Nietzsche 45). Therefore, memory acts as a good reminder to prevent individuals from wrongdoing and helps in the construction of the values that a community holds. Nietzsche also believed that some people purposefully forget the things that happened in their lives. In this case, memory is not just focused on remembering, but also forgetting those things that one considers to have negative effects on the person. People try to forget things that had