That the truth of subjective testimony cannot be guaranteed accounts for the increased dependence by official inquiries on the supporting evidence of ‘objective’ material ‘clues’. But if eyewitness testimony can bear false witness, a charge successfully proven against the organs of the state by the Saville inquiry, forensics can be misled by the time-honoured practice […]
Reflections 05 – Memory
In speaking of what he calls the ‘pathological-therapeutic’ level of memory, rooted in ‘wounds and scars’, Ricoeur notes that there are places where there is an excess of memory and others where there is an excess of forgetting, urging a balance between a duty to forget and a duty to remember so that the egregious […]