Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Purpose of a Trial
The purpose of the trial was not to determine whether ikman was guilty or innocent, says Imea. She argues that he just did what he was told because he was trying to advance his career. And so her question in this book is how do we understand the complete collapse of two thousand years of development of culture and morality as personified by this one person?
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