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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Summary
2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 9 | 17.78 | 100% | 56% | 22% |
2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 7 | 18.57 | 100% | 86% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 12 | 16.67 | 83% | 67% | 17% |
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 10 | 16.00 | 80% | 70% | 10% |
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 24.44 | 100% | 100% | 44% |
Data
CWRU B (DII) | Michigan C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
West Virginia A (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Miami B (UG) | Miami A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan A (UG) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
Ohio State B (DII) | Michigan D (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Michigan State A | Michigan B (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Michigan State B | West Virginia B (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Ohio State A (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
Miami C (DII) | Ohio State C (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |