Banality of evil

Although both Milgram and Zimbardo both preach the banality of evil and the human tendency to be obedient to authority figures, Reicher Haslam is not willing to accept the banality of evil as a universal truth. Instead, he cites evidence from examinations of Nazi German leaders, who were given orders to kill Jews, but these orders were not specific. Therefore, the Nazi leaders had some creative control in the concentration camps and weren’t conforming to direct orders. He also references the BBC

Hannah Arendt has been widely recognized as both one of the most major thinkers and top political philosophers of the 20th century. Arendt was born on October 14, 1906 in Hanover, Germany as the only child of a middle-class Jewish-German family. She grew up in Königsberg, In 1913, her father passed away and her mother persuaded her into strong academic studies, and it is quite evident she did well in motivating her as Arendt’s academic background is quite large. In 1933, Arendt was arrested for having

the crimes that he committed while being a Lieutenant Colonel in the SS during the Nazi Regime. In the book Arendt talks about how Eichmann’s actions were “banal” in the sense that he seemed to be an ordinary person who just committed acts that were evil. Italian-Jewish Writer Primo Levi, a Holocaust Survivor, states that SS officers like Eichmann lived in their own self-deception that made them believe that their actions were caused by just following their orders in the SS. In this paper, I will analyze

Guided Inquiry: The Nature of Evil My Inquiry: “To what extent is Adolf Eichmann just a bureaucratic businessman doing his job, or were his motivations composed of pure evil and murderous intent?” ‘Is Eichmann a rotten, soiled and evil man, and were his motivations boring, mundane and obvious?’ Why did Eichmann kill so many Jews if he ‘supposedly’ no real hate or motivation to do it? Reading 1 “Adolf Eichmann went to the gallows with great dignity. He had asked for a bottle of red wine and had

comes to the conclusion that by obeying Hitler, Eichmann was just fulfilling his ‘oath’ with a sort of blank moral slate. The result was her celebrated coinage "the banality of evil": her epiphany in realizing that Eichmann was not a scary monster but an obedient employee without any

Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil In her book, Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt uses the life and trial of Adolf Eichmann to explore man's responsibility for evils committed under orders or as a result of the law. Due to the fact that she believed that Eichmann was neither anti-Semitic, nor a psychopath, Arendt was widely criticized for treating Eichmann too sympathetically. Still, her work on the Eichmann trial is among the most respected works on the issue to date

In the Meno, Socrates finds the meaning of the word virtue in terms of human wisdom. This definition pursues a further question which is “what makes the quest for wisdom possible?” (Gallagher, Commentary on the Meno). In the beginning of the dialogue, Meno asks Socrates if virtue can be taught. Socrates says that doesn’t have a complete and comprehensive understanding of virtue. This is an example of human wisdom, knowing that you don’t know something. Hannah Arendt is a very famous philosopher

law-abiding citizen. This is where Hannah Arendt, a leading political thinker in the 20th century had focused on the evils of bureaucracy. Questioning on how one could do what is considered to be “evil” but is believed to be right without repulsion or hesitation. Firstly, Arendt considers Eichmann of being a “nobody” and he is only a result of a thoughtless man incapable of think, rather than an evil monster. It was his inabilities to think that had resulted in the genocide, and this had brought him the attentions

1961 in order to write a report on it for the popular news source called the New Yorker, Arendt became a very controversial name both in everyday households and among philosophers. Arendt’s first version of this book, Eichmann in Jerusalem: the Banality of Evil, was not a book at all, it was a series of news stories that appeared in the New Yorker, which was later formed into a book. Eichmann in Jerusalem is a radical work that resulted in much hatred from the public when it was taken as a defense of

The three ways that Ethical Subjectivism can be viewed as different from each other, but they also do possess some similarities. Simple and Emotivism both express that judgements cannot be criticized. They both are stating a matter of personal opinion. In Simple Subjectivism, the judgments we make will always be true, and in Emotivism we do not make judgments, it is an expression of our attitude. In Error Theory, it is stated that there are no facts and no one can be right. This is unlike what Simple