Hannah Arendt

provides her viewpoint representing the civilians in Germany. However, it is important to mention her character, who is ambiguous in her responsibility as a widow of a military man who was found guilty in a prior trial. Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt also provides the vague sense of guilt of a specific figure in the Nazi’s crime. Adolf Eichmann argues in his trial questioning his responsibility as a bureaucrat under the Nazi regime. Eichmann keeps claiming throughout his trial, that he…

And a quote from a character named Hannah Arendt called the lottery “the banality of evil” because the end result shows a brutal way to get rid of someone because towards the end of the story, a section of it points out that “although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original…

the severity of the crime of the accused greatly influenced how a victim would be tortured during medieval times. • quote – “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil,” as stated by Hannah Arendt. II. In fact torture was used primarily as a means of extracting information. For instance once someone was accused of a crime and the court had enough evidence to prove that person was indeed the one who committed the crime, the person…

I then introduce the idea of how statelessness leads to human insecurity. This is because one of the most difficult situations is living in a state where one does not have the right of freedom from want, freedom from fear and freedom from violence—as most stateless persons do not. In addition, I present the theory of “minority membership” as applied to stateless persons and how being part of the minority as a stateless person marginalizes them. Furthermore, this leads to how the stateless…

Moreover, the leaders of these strong dictatorial patriotic countries are often times unstable, which “makes it possible for him to be much more nationalistic — more vulgar, more silly, more malignant, more dishonest — that he could ever be on behalf of his native country, or any unit of which he had real knowledge” (Notes on Nationalism). In essence, it leads to dehumanization of the individual and places the leader to believe he has an almost godlike power that can do no wrong, which explains…

Rwandan’s as Homo-Fabers created categorizations of differences. But also, these differences happen to similar in across all societies as well. In The Human Condition, Arendt understands Bergson’s Creative Evolution to give an account of the ways in which Homo-Fabers believe that…

Black Folk , 45– 61 “It Moves,” in The Frederick Douglass Papers: Series 1 (Vol. 5: 188 1– 95), 1992, ed. J. Blasingame and J. McKivigan, eds., 129– 30 Williams, Thomas Chatterton. “The Meaning of Freedom,' by Angela Davis.” SFGate, 7 Sept. 2012 Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism,…

could. People think that they are independent, only they control what they do, but people have a natural tendency to conform. When the person in the lab coat asked them to conform, to go along with what they asked, the test subjects did. Author Hannah Arendt says that “the sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil” and this can be seen from those who didn’t choose to stand up to the men in the lab coats…

Clash of Civilization by Samuel Huntington have faced many accounts of criticism from many disciplines. He replied to his critics in a Foreign Policy article in 1993 titled as “If Not Civilizations, What?” He addressed some of the critiques to his thesis of civilizations in the article, however, he responded with “got a better idea?” In his article, he has identified what concepts, theories, and paradigms are. Furthermore, he pointed out by referencing Kuhn that “anomalous events do…

The fear of living as an individual is shown in Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, A Report of the Banality of Evil when Adolf Eichmann reflects on his life after Germany’s 1945 defeat, noting “’I would have to live a leaderless and difficult individual life, I would receive no directives from anybody, no orders and commands would any longer be issued to me… in brief, a life never known before lay before me’” (Arendt, 37). During the Nazi rise to power, the lost, unemployed Eichmann…