
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Impartial Observer
There's plenty of desperate background moral thinking that people could draw on, no matter what society you're in. But certainly in a society and well educated people like some of these chiefs talking about, who were actively involved in the atrocity, there's magnetism, but it's not a complete blockade. Contrary to the mass anfact, there's great violence, in the case of 19 84, to make sure that you stay in line. If you're not doing that, then there is a process of rehabilitating or exterminating you. She did think of the notsy regime as totelitarian and not simply facios. So rent was very careful about making distinctions between mere thoritarian
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