Hannah's Philosophy Essay Report

Westley 2022-03-24 09:03:31

Just like at the end of the movie, her former friend said, "play yourself as a German intellectual who looks down on the Jews". Indeed, Hannah Arendt pondered the banal evil of Einchmann, a "killing machine" from a philosophical height, and wrote "Eichmann in Jerusalem". Her summary is "thinking, not knowledge, but the ability to distinguish between right and wrong, beauty and ugliness". This speech and theory won applause, giving up thinking is just obedience, in fact, what is giving up is one's own power as a human being. Keep thinking, keep thinking, this can also give a glimpse of how German philosophy is flourishing.
But emotionally, it's really unacceptable. Even in the incompetent, numb, and cold-blooded Jewish Council. When you really judge him as a third party, a bunch of people with blood and conscience will defend him immediately. Hannah is brave enough to risk the world. This is indeed her usual style.
At least, she was thinking. What about us? We hope that after watching it, we can think.

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Extended Reading
  • Kamille 2022-03-18 09:01:07

    Chinese people never think about the historical view that evil is mediocre and good is radical. Good and evil are by no means binary oppositions.

  • Rosalind 2022-03-17 09:01:08

    Taking the Nuremberg Trial to point to the face, through the trial of Eichmann's mediocre evil, it refers to the fundamental problems of the entire modern society. The abandonment of personal thinking and judgment is more due to consumerism in the West. In the East, there is not only consumerism, but also the worship of power and the coercion of Big Brother.

Hannah Arendt quotes

  • Thomas Miller: So, I see you were all students of the confounding Martin Heidegger.

    Heinrich Blücher: Oh, I didn't even finish High School.

    Thomas Miller: But, aren't you a professor at Bard?

  • Kurt Blumenfeld: And how's my Heinrich? Is he good to you?

    Hannah Arendt: Yes. Sometimes too good.

    Kurt Blumenfeld: I miss arguing with him. I can no longer see my way through the maze of modern life.