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" Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence in itself was in no way criminal; he certainly would never have murdered his superior in order to inherit his post. He merely,... "
Understanding Evil: An Interdisciplinary Approach - Page 1
edited by - 2003 - 222 pages
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Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators: Essays on the Nazi Holocaust

Joel E. Dimsdale - 1980 - 500 pages
...prove a villain." Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence in itself...doing. It was precisely this lack of imagination which enabled him to sit for months on end facing a German Jew who was conducting the police interrogation,...
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Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature, and French Intellectual Life

Alice Yaeger Kaplan - 1986 - 246 pages
...would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain'. ... He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing.'"1 For Arendt, the issue remains the guilt of the individual accused; to the extent however,...
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Work Values: Education, Organization, and Religious Concerns

Samuel M. Natale, Brian M. Rothschild, Joseph W. Sora - 1995 - 284 pages
..."Despite all the efforts of the prosecution, everybody could see that this man was not a monster.. .he certainly would never have murdered his superior...matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing. ...He was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness - something by no means identical with stupidity,"...
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Work Values: Education, Organization, and Religious Concerns

Samuel M. Natale, Brian M. Rothschild, Joseph W. Sora, Tara M. Madden - 1995 - 280 pages
..."Despite all the efforts of the prosecution, everyhody could see that this man was not a monster.. .he certainly would never have murdered his superior...the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing....He was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness - something by no means identical with stupidity."...
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The Politics of Ethics: Methods for Acting, Learning, and Sometimes Fighting ...

Richard P. Nielsen - 1996 - 274 pages
..."Despite all the efforts of the prosecution, everybody could see that this man was not a monster ... he certainly would never have murdered his superior...matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing. ... He was not stupid. It was sheer thoughtlessness — something by no means identical with stupidity...
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Hannah Arendt And The Jewish Question

Richard J. Bernstein - 1996 - 260 pages
...extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. ... He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing" (EJ, 287). Radical evil, as Arendt so devastatingly phrases it, is making human beings "superfluous...
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Hannah Arendt: Twenty Years Later

Larry May, Jerome Kohn - 1996 - 414 pages
...extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. . . . He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing."11 Radical evil, as Arendt so straightforwardly and devastatingly phrases it, is making human...
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Dead Wrong: A Death Row Lawyer Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment

Michael Mello - 1997 - 420 pages
...diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all. And this diligence was in no way criminal; he certainly would never have...doing. It was precisely this lack of imagination which enabled him to sit for months on end facing a German Jew who was conducting the police interrogation,...
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Politics and Truth: Political Theory and the Postmodernist Challenge

Theresa Man Ling Lee - 1997 - 260 pages
...motives or aggressiveness that we would tend to associate with crime of such a scale. In Arendt's words, "he merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing. ... It was sheer thoughtlessness . . . that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period."69...
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Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics

Craig J. Calhoun, John McGowan - 1997 - 380 pages
...for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives as all He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing" (EJ, 287). It simply is not clear in what sense Arendt is speaking "on the strictly factual level."...
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