Eichmann in Jerusalem

Dr. Phil Zimbardo [Talks] about Eichmann as illustrating the banality of evil. (Source)

Lucas Morales I was introduced to the book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt via Ian Shapiro’s Yale Open Courseware course The Moral Foundations of Political Science. This dramatically changed my outlook on the usual career path for graduates from my university that predominantly went into the defence industry. I am now perhaps overly conscious (maybe to a fault) that whatever I do purposefully aims to be a positive to society. (Source)

David Bell Political philosopher Arendt sees the work of the Nazis as the inevitable result of colonialism and industrialisation. (Source)

Daniel Pick The trial focused public attention on the individual high bureaucrat who had such personal responsibility in the Final Solution. There was, in a way, this enigma of what went on in Eichmann’s mind. (Source)