
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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What Was His True Duty?
i see chapter eight is sort of a climax before she goes into many of the details about deportations in chapters nine through 13, before coming back to the trial. But i think the way it's characterized in this chapter is not that ikman was going above and beyond what hitler wanted because he he was reading what the f wanted. There wasn't a lot of evidence of hitler explicitly putting down as a law that you shall deport jews to extermination camps. But for ike men, he kind of knew, everyone knew what hitler wants, and they acted on that. And even after everyone else had stopped acting on that, he continued to act on that principle. That
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