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
| Lehigh B (DII) | Bard A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia A (UG) | Maryland A (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Fordham A | NYU A (UG) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Lehigh A (UG) | NYU B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland B (DII) | Rutgers B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn B (DII) | Columbia J (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Princeton A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |