Guilty Before God: Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

A reading of Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963).
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[@JohnSmith-i4s]

Very informative sir! I have an interesting question to entreat of you: When do you think compliance creates complicity?

[@positivereadings8909]

Thank you. Although Arendt doesn't discuss complicity, I think the implication is that certain individuals in the councils were complicit and benefited financially from it. Of course, the alternative was probably death, but it seems to be worse than simple moral cowardice.

[@Richard-hv5hh]

I knew Professor Norman Bentwich, the first professor of International Law at the Hebrew University. A very distinguished British jurist. If I recall correctly, he argued Eichmann should not be hanged in Israel as Israel had no death penalty. I may be incorrect about that, and he may have argued, like Arendt, that it was a matter for an international tribune based on war crimes or crimes against humanity.

[@positivereadings8909]

I'm not familiar with Professor Bentwich. Thank you for the introduction.

[@Richard-hv5hh]

@@positivereadings8909 He was also the Attorney General under the Mandate.

[@JeremyHelm]

22:41 events calling for a greater examination of our human circumstances - that 'the line between good and evil running down the heart of every man' necessitates more than mere courtroom revenge

[@JeremyHelm]

24:06 systematic blindness to one's own humanity, as a social system

[@positivereadings8909]

That's a good way to put it.