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The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking

Elizabeth K. Minnich

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Description:In The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich follows Arendt, Camus, and others on a quest for the nature of the kind of evil that gets done on a large scale, with large numbers of people who follow along or collaborate or fail to stand for what is ethically needed, and do so for shockingly banal reasons: for a promotion, to get along without conflict, because it is too late or they are the wrong person to do anything about it. These banal reasons are at their core forms of thoughtlessness. Putting readers face to face with some of the most horrific and systemic evils in the modern world, from the holocaust and slavery to contemporary examples of genocide, torture, and systemic physical and sexual abuse, the author helps readers see that, while evils that contradict settled conventions of society will always be with us--what Minnich calls intensive evils --we can combat the normalized or extensive evils through becoming more thoughtful. As such, Minnich s exploration of good and evil is in the end a defense of liberal education as our best hope for a thoughtful society, free of the extensive evil that threatens so many human lives. This is a book for any reader, scholar, or student interested in the problem of evil and what we can do about it."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking. To get started finding The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In The Evil of Banality, Elizabeth Minnich follows Arendt, Camus, and others on a quest for the nature of the kind of evil that gets done on a large scale, with large numbers of people who follow along or collaborate or fail to stand for what is ethically needed, and do so for shockingly banal reasons: for a promotion, to get along without conflict, because it is too late or they are the wrong person to do anything about it. These banal reasons are at their core forms of thoughtlessness. Putting readers face to face with some of the most horrific and systemic evils in the modern world, from the holocaust and slavery to contemporary examples of genocide, torture, and systemic physical and sexual abuse, the author helps readers see that, while evils that contradict settled conventions of society will always be with us--what Minnich calls intensive evils --we can combat the normalized or extensive evils through becoming more thoughtful. As such, Minnich s exploration of good and evil is in the end a defense of liberal education as our best hope for a thoughtful society, free of the extensive evil that threatens so many human lives. This is a book for any reader, scholar, or student interested in the problem of evil and what we can do about it."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking. To get started finding The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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