Reflections on Memory, the Common Good, and Being Human
Reflections on Memory, the Common Good, and Being Human Author(s): Margo Borders, Patrick Calderon, Juanita Esguerra, Kevin Kho, Tracy-Lynn Lockwood, Andrew Mach, Theodore Mueller, Adrian Pacurar, Clemens Sedmak, Rachel Ziegler 2018, 2 CSC Occasional Paper Series The Center for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame is an academic institute committed to research in the areas of Catholic social tradition and community-engaged learning and scholarship. The Occasional Papers Series was created to contribute to the common good by sharing the intellectual work of the Center work with a wider public. It makes available some of the lectures, seminars, and conversations held at the Center. The papers in the series are available for download free of charge; as long as proper credit is given they can be used as any other academic reference. Reflections on Memory, the Common Good, and Being Human University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN INTRODUCTION The following is an exercise in the communication of memories; a group of young adults, all graduate students from the University of Notre Dame, traveled to Germany and Austria for a week in spring 2018 to experience Holocaust memorial sites. The immersion was part of the “Common Good Initiative” and intended to provide access to the cultivation of a “thick sense” of the Holocaust, a creative understanding of an ethics of remembering and its connections to Catholic Social Tradition. Remembering can be understood to mean: putting the fragments of the past together; making memories whole; healing memories; connecting the past and the future. A proper culture of remembering is an important aspect of the common good.
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