[lit-ideas] Re: *Eichmann in Jerusalem*
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 21:04:39 +0100
> Interesting. Perhaps the answer lies in why it took you this
long to ask.
No.
And
> why nobody else on the List did?
Perhaps they thought they knew the answer.
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> Interesting. Perhaps the answer lies in why it took you this
long to ask. And
> why nobody else on the List did?
>
> WCO
>
>
>
> Quoting Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > I should have asked this before, I suppose. Why "Hannah" but
> > "Kant"?
> >
> >
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> > From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Ed Farrell" <ewf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 8:21 PM
> > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: *Eichmann in Jerusalem*
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Many thanks to Ed for a very informative post. It gives me
some
> > meat to gnaw on
> > > until the book makes it to my mailbox. But I'm hoping that
Ed
> > or anyone will
> > > put his or their humility aside and take a stab at making
some
> > sense of
> > > Hannah's idea that judgements of right and wrong regarding
> > particular
> > > historical events or individual subjects can be made
without
> > appeal to general
> > > principles, rules or concepts, as per Kant's "reflective
> > judgement" (Third
> > > Critique). This seems impossible to me (and should have so
> > seemed to Kant as
> > > well); I don't know why Hannah ever saw the question as a
> > sensible one. Any
> > > examples of such judgements that anyone cares to offer will
be
> > appreciated (if
> > > not accepted.)
> > >
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