How important is an understanding of history in helping us to develop our sense of right and wrong?

Can you provide any specific examples to support your answer?

How did his ‘lamentable ignorance’ about history lead to him making a serious moral transgression?

Do you agree we are “well advised to familiarise [ourselves] with events which continue to have great significance to those who live in a free country"?

Do you think it is everyone’s responsibility to develop a certain level of historical knowledge?

What does this reveal about the way an understanding of history helps us to prevent moral transgressions? Clue - focus on the key concept of power.

Create a new quote that is similar in length to Santayana’s, but which provides a more complete description of the necessity of possessing historical awareness.

In your table groups, build a case that either supports or refutes Santayana's adage about history.

Use the articles that we’ve looked at today, and augment this with your own research.

You can use ChatGPT to help you construct your case, but make sure you assert your own ideas.

Do we have a moral responsibility to develop a certain level of historical awareness? 

What are the implications of forgetting our history?