
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Stock Phrases and Not Thinking at All
Heler hardly ever attempted to justify in ideological terms, and if he did, it was apparently quickly forgotten. What stuck in the minds of these men who had become murderers was simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique,. A great task that occurs once in two thousand years which must therefore be difficult to bear. This is what has made us hard. Or we realize that what we are expecting from you is to be superhumanly inhuman. That is a page in the glory of our history which has never been written, and which is never to be written. In order to solve the jewish question, this was the most frightening order an organization could ever receive.
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