Ricoeur proposes the outlines for such an ethics of remembering others in his monumental Memory, History, Forgetting, where he argues that justice is a virtue always “turned toward others.… The duty of memory is the duty to do justice, through memories, to an other than the self.” And: “moral priority belongs to the victims.… The victim at issue here is the other victim, other than ourselves.”34 In short, justice always resides with remembering the other.
