This is philosophy bites with me Nigel Warburton and me David Edmonds.

Philosophy bites is unfunded.

Please help us keep it going by subscribing or donating at W.W.

Philosophy Bites.com or you can become a patron at Patreon.

How should we commemorate those who died in warfare? Aught we to pay respect just to the soldiers killed on our side,

or to enemy soldiers too,

and what of civilian casualties on both sides.

All these issues tend to arouse powerful emotions.

Cecil Farb, of all souls college Oxford, has been reflecting upon the connection between

war and remembrance.

Cecil Farb, welcome to Flossi Bites.

Thank you.

The topic we're going to focus on today is remembrance,

specifically remembrance in war.

Let's just at the beginning get clear what remembrance is. So when I talk about

remembrance in the context of war I have in mind very simply practices such as

the ceremony at the Senataph in London every year on Remembrance Sunday,

or the custom of standing still for a two minute silence at 11 o'clock in the morning on the 11th of

November certainly in this country the UK but in other countries as well.

Presumably you also want to include the memorials, the physical objects, the stone memorials that

are built?

Yes I do, so that's a very interesting dimension of remembrance.

...