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“Like the witch trials in the Middle Ages?” We would always rather externalize evil than examine it.”
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“Anders did not classify evils as better or worse, but he wanted to distinguish them.”
“Arendt herself complicated matters by calling it journalism instead of philosophy, which added to the misunderstandings.”
“Having persuaded the judge of all the earth to agree to the principle, Abraham proceeds to negotiate.”
“Moral judgment is not a matter of timeless fiats, even were they proclaimed by the Lord of Hosts.”
“_______________________________ Excerpted from Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era by Susan Neiman.”
“Few things are less erotic than a fungus.”
“Not malevolence but thoughtlessness was behind Eichmann’s deeds.”
“But I’m interested in the reasons for less spectacular cases.” “He said he was a werewolf.”
“For their critics, understanding it as a response to the brutal occupation precluded calling it evil.”
“But her fundamental point remains: Evil acts are seldom committed by monsters.”
“The Sodomites sinned and got what was coming to them; God turned their cities to rubble no one ever found.”
“It’s a deep analogy, for you usually recognize members of a family, though you can’t trace your recognition to the shape of a mouth or the slant of an eye.”
“In such a world, would morality be possible?”
“There was once a mass shooter who was found to have a brain tumor.”
“The one time he observed a gas chamber in action, he swore that it made him sick.”
“Arendt’s radical claims still stand, in principle, though not for the man Adolf Eichmann.”
“Most important concepts, like justice or beauty or judgment, elude definition.”
“It also means that such concepts can be defined only in relation to each other, as part of a view as a whole.”
“For undermining traditional religious authority, he was eventually sentenced to death.”
“The terrorism committed by Hamas on October 7 and the subsequent destruction of Gaza by Israeli forces are not the same.”
“Definitions are useful in subjects like mathematics, whose components are fixed enough to stay put.”
“We know from our own lives how seldom happiness and virtue are in tune.”