Episode #136 ... Hannah Arendt - The Banality of Evil

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Of all the wonderful episodes you have done. this is my favorite! Arendt's work is a timeless warning of what happens when we stop thinking and acting. There can be no worse a fate for a human than to be nothing more than a thoughtless laboring animal.

tomhancock

This hits really hard. We need more modernity Philosophy on this show.

wastedblues

Succinct and concise. A great service to citizens and storytellers seeking their themes.

silverback

Mr. West I truly want to thank you for the great service you are providing by offering your insight/interpretation for creating these episodes. You allow the average person like myself to understand and appreciate these great thinkers from different eras.

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I have to say this was quite the treat. Perfect way to end the day... a good
Ol philosophize this podcast. Don’t want to sound ungrateful but Mr. West it would mean a lot to me and I’m sure countless others if you could keep the content coming more often. I hope all is well sir; because you were putting out episodes way more often. Thank you 🙏 for all the awesome philosophers you have touched on.

RoyAlexander

I was just dancing around the kitchen, holding the poor cat high above my head like some offering to an alien god or to my upstairs neighbors, while cheering this on. Thank you.

Diescenesterdie

I just finished reading Eichmann in Jeruralem. This podcast was a great way to complete the picture. Thank you.

claudiaarevalo

I love the way this podcast talks about authors: so good to hear, thanks for your job. I want to leave a thought as a brazilian researcher on anthropology.

Quote: "This was not a man motivated to do what he did because of a racist ideology. This was a man motivated because he was trying to get a promotion" - end quote about the concept of banality of evil.

Well, I want to ask why not someone motivated by a racist ideology AND someone trying to get a promotion? Why we have to think it's just one of those two things and not embrace peoples as a complex phenomena? I'm asking this because if we are trying to think with Arendt that neither capitalism and marxist can leave behing the ilummination as an ontological base (with economics as a thing in common about those two types of system), I think we need to go deeper to comprehend what we call modernity and what deep roots it has (and racism is one of them as could say Frantz Fanon). Even if some person lives as an avarege person, living his/her life trying to get a job and a family, he/she is located as a person and almost always we are talking about white people that lived on "developed contries". Even if someone don't want to be a racist person, it could be living as a racist person because he is inside a system that promotes colonialism, consumism, natural disasters and so on. What I think is good about Arendt is that she puts modernity as a complex problem to discuss and put nazism as a result of this type of living and thinking. But it is still a local thought because I think we need to go even deeper as Gilbert Durand tries to do, putting europe (more deeper than just modernity) as a result of a long process that started in the 13th century ("science de l'homme et tradition" is a very good book for this). So it's not just about the notion of politics, but about the ontological existence that promotes destruction and, in times of exacerbation, nazism and total war. So we have to think about our distance of the west, of indigenous people, of Africa, of religious thought (not catolic) and how we perpetuate this distance with ordinaire things like eating, bathing, clothing, seeking health, education, etc.
Thanks for reading even if you desagree!

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This is one of the best podcast that I have ever experienced. I also feel it came as a self reflection to me. It’s interesting to see How one mistakenly denies searching for his identity and gives it in the hands of groups who are invisible. Well I relate to these groups as big tech giants who throw money as a totem to fill intellectual lubrications in their giant economic cogs.

puneetjain

Halfway through and loving it, Steven! Will be starting on "The Human Condition" shortly. Will continue to support the show.

yogailatheseer

Hannah Arendt seems particularly relevant to politics in America today...and not just America

Squigglydodah

this just provided me with 5 pages of notes, thank you, i have severe cramp in my fingers and it is now about 4 in the morning, but thank you

tawwy

The best introduction to Hannah Arendt (or actually the best intro in general) I've ever heard. Many thanks!

dudusf

Thank you for sharing this. I found it amusing, engaging and profound! Great discourse I will definitely share this

Aris-ybuy

Thank you very much...I have started the imperialism chapter...from her book ` the origin of totalitarianism ' . So rich and full of information...connects lot of things from her time and before and very much relevant today...the world we live in...

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