
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is There a Crime Against Humanity?
The problem here comes because it's international. It's an international issue. So international law that she thinks that the correct view of justice is not, as you say, revenge. I's that the society has been wronged, so there need to be reparations to repair the rip in society. The whole point in moving from the earth cries out to vengeance, to society needs to be put back together. How do we make, philosophically respectable, non mystical, the notion that there can be a crime against humanity? We need philosophically clarify that, so we're not just referring to some the balance of nature or something, some superstitious sounding abstraction.
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