
Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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I and Thou or Spinoza, in the Face of the Other
All the jewish thinkers, and in the jewish intellectual tradition, is sceptical of the abstract. So erent diagnosis, this idealism, this sacrificing of the individual to an idea, as part of the problem. And if you think back on lebinas, for example, let me as to what west just said. You's talking about ikeman having no conscience, right? Tat he jus, there was no evidence of conscience. But if you think and connect this back to the idea of i and thou or levinas, in the face of the other, the individual themselves carries with them the weight of conscience. Just your inner action with another individual should be
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