Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 181: Hannah Arendt on the Banality of Evil (Part Two)
• Website: The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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• Duration: 01:22:19
• Published: 2018-01-22 02:51

Continuing on Eichmann in Jerusalem, on how ordinary people can do--or acquiesce to--horrific things. How do people rationalize this? What can we apply from this to ourselves? Also, how was genocide a new type of crime, and what's the best rationale for punishing it? We talk justice, revenge, and ways that we too might be morally mass-confused.

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End song: "Hiding from the Face of God" from Judybats 2000; listen to me interview singer/songwriter Jeff Heiskell on Nakedly Examined Music eps. 5 and 63.