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 1edited by - 2003 - 222 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| 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,... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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,"... | |
| 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."... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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