Question

A 1951 Hannah Arendt book characterizes this concept’s “radical” form as making humans superfluous. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this concept. In a 1963 book, Arendt described how a self-described “joiner” of organizations believed he was following the categorical imperative, thus explaining how he exemplified the “banality of [this concept].”
ANSWER: evil [accept radical evil; accept the banality of evil] (That 1963 book is Eichmann in Jerusalem.)
[10e] Both the term radical evil and the categorical imperative were first coined by this German Enlightenment philosopher who also wrote Critique of Pure Reason.
ANSWER: Immanuel Kant
[10h] Arendt first wrote about radical evil in this aforementioned 1951 book consisting of essays on antisemitism, imperialism, and its title political system.
ANSWER: The Origins of Totalitarianism
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY120.00100%100%0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY917.78100%56%22%
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY718.57100%86%0%
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1216.6783%67%17%
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY1016.0080%70%10%
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Auburn AGeorgia Tech A1010020
FurmanAuburn B1010020
Clemson ABelmont010010
Alabama AClemson B1010020
Emory ASouth Carolina B1010020
Georgia Tech ETennessee A1010020
South Carolina AGeorgia Tech D10101030
Auburn CSouthern1010020
Vanderbilt AMississippi State A10101030
Tennessee BVanderbilt B0000
Georgia AGeorgia Tech C0000
Emory OxfordGeorgia Tech B010010