Guilty Before God: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Guilty Before God: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

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Ай бұрын

A reading of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
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@JohnSmith-i4s Ай бұрын

Very informative sir! I have an interesting question to entreat of you: When do you think compliance creates complicity?

@positivereadings8909 Ай бұрын

Thank you. Although Arendt doesn't discuss complicity, I think the implication is that certain individuals in the councils were complicit and benefited financially from it. Of course, the alternative was probably death, but it seems to be worse than simple moral cowardice.

@Richard-hv5hh Ай бұрын

I knew Professor Norman Bentwich, the first professor of International Law at the Hebrew University. A very distinguished British jurist. If I recall correctly, he argued Eichmann should not be hanged in Israel as Israel had no death penalty. I may be incorrect about that, and he may have argued, like Arendt, that it was a matter for an international tribune based on war crimes or crimes against humanity.

@positivereadings8909 Ай бұрын

I'm not familiar with Professor Bentwich. Thank you for the introduction.

@Richard-hv5hh Ай бұрын

@@positivereadings8909 He was also the Attorney General under the Mandate.

@JeremyHelm Ай бұрын

22:41 events calling for a greater examination of our human circumstances - that 'the line between good and evil running down the heart of every man' necessitates more than mere courtroom revenge

@JeremyHelm Ай бұрын

24:06 systematic blindness to one's own humanity, as a social system

@positivereadings8909 Ай бұрын

That's a good way to put it.