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rendt\u27s Radical Good and the Banality of Evil: Echoes of Scholem and Jaspers in Margarethe von Trotta\u27s Hannah Arendt
No full textMargarethe von Trotta\u27s 2012 film Hannah Arendt suggests that for Arendt the signal problem with Adolf Eichmann had to do with a lack of thinking (the same problem Martin Heidegger diagnoses repeatedly in his book What is Called Thinking). For Heidegger, we are still not thinking. For Arendt, what is characteristic of Eichmann is that he does not think, meaning that he does not think as Aristotle defines thinking, namely as characteristic of the human qua human, here conceiving thinking as an inherently philosophical project that is more than practical but always contemplative (i.e., thinking about thinking). Is Eichmann monstrously evil, as many commentators are keen to insist—or does his all-too-typically unthinking nature attest instead, as Arendt observed, to the banality of evil? Karl Jaspers and Arendt would go beyond the lonely business of thought (as Heidegger spoke of the thinker) to argue that whatever thinking can be, it is inherently political and can only be done with other human beings in community or as both Arendt and Jaspers spoke of the formation of a world
The Theory and Practice of Kindergarten-Primary Education
No full textThe educational systems of the United States. have long suffered because of a serious lack of coordination between their various component units. The gaps in content, method and general practice between the elementary school, the high school, the college and the professional school have been disturbing and costly, requiring various efforts at reconciliation.A most glaring incongruity has been the relationship of the Kindergarten and the Primary School