Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Is She Endorsing Collective Guilt?
"If i live in a city where everyone has gone nuts and has succumbed to vice, and i become vice ridden because of that, i am not excused for my vice riddenness," she says. "Appealing to the deterministic social and psychological causes of my venality, of my viciousness, does not get me off the hook." She rejects collective guilt, though, so it sounds like she's endorsing collective guilt, but she's not", he adds.
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