Question
This philosopher used the term “natality” to describe the idea that humans are “not born in order to die but in order to begin.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this philosopher who wrote about a war criminal who used “stock phrases and self-invented clichés” to defend himself, thus highlighting the “banality of evil.”
ANSWER: Hannah Arendt
[10e] In her book Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt argued that Eichmann’s role in this political party was not due to “insane hatred” of Jews.
ANSWER: Nazi Party [or National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP]
[10h] Before she changed her mind in Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt wrote in this book that argues that authoritarian movements were “radical evils” motivated by “natural resentment” against everything they could not understand.
ANSWER: The Origins of Totalitarianism
<Yingzhi Nyang, RMP - Philosophy> ~20267~ <Editor: Jordan Brownstein>
Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 2 | 25.00 | 100% | 100% | 50% |
Data
| Thomas Jefferson B | Detroit Catholic Central A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Detroit Country Day | Plymouth | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |