[lit-ideas] Re: *Eichmann in Jerusalem*
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:05:10 +0100
> W: Well, I guess that settles the matter.
Unless you want to tell us why my delay in responding explains
your post
> W: Perhaps you should simply ask for the sake of being in an
epistemically more
> favourable position to make your public conjectures. Then you
could speak with
> greater certainty about what you think other people think they
know.
I credit this List's members with the ability to reply to my
> > Perhaps they thought they knew the answer.
should they wish.
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: *Eichmann in Jerusalem*
> Quoting Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> > > Interesting. Perhaps the answer lies in why it took you
this
> > long to ask.
> >
> > No.
>
> W: Well, I guess that settles the matter.
>
>
> > And
> > > why nobody else on the List did?
> >
> > Perhaps they thought they knew the answer.
> >
>
> W: Perhaps you should simply ask for the sake of being in an
epistemically more
> favourable position to make your public conjectures. Then you
could speak with
> greater certainty about what you think other people think they
know.
>
> Your friendly neighborhood white middle-class atheist straight
male, but not yet
> dead, and still believing in Enlightenment values but clearly
having too much
> free time on his holidaying hands at present,
> WCO
> Cafe Platon
> Rue des Feuillantines
> Paris, France
>
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "Judith Evans"
> > <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 8:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: [lit-ideas] Re: *Eichmann in Jerusalem*
> >
> >
> > > 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"?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > 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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