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%
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY815.00100%50%0%
2024 ACF Fall at IllinoisfallY924.44100%100%44%

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Lehigh B (DII)Bard A (UG)010010
Columbia A (UG)Maryland A (DII)1010020
Fordham ANYU A (UG)010010
Lehigh A (UG)NYU B010010
Maryland B (DII)Rutgers B1010020
Penn B (DII)Columbia J (DII)1010020
Princeton A (UG)Rowan A (DII)010010
Rutgers A (UG)Penn A (DII)1010020