| Title: | Arendt |
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| Course Section Number: | PSC-330-01 |
| Department: | Political Science |
| Description: | Cross List: PSC-330=PPE-329=PHI-319. In her report on Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem, Arendt points to two character flaws that allow Eichmann to become the architect of the plans that resulted in the murder of six million Jews during the Second World War. First "was his almost total inability to look at anything from the other fellow's point of view," and second his "inability to think." It was these flaws that led Arendt to see in Eichmann the personification of the "banality of evil." If evil acts can be done not out of malicious intent but because of the failure to think, then each of us is much more susceptible to evil than we might want to think. This course is structured to think about how thinking could be a bulwark against evil. In The Life of the Mind, Arendt writes, "Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results or specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing or even actually "condition" them against it?" We will read Eichmann in Jerusalem, The Life of the Mind, Arendt's Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy, her most well-known work The Human Condition and more. PREREQs: One of the following PSC 131, PSC 230, PHI 110, 240, or 242 or by permission from the professor. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 20, 2020 |
| End Date: | May 9, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/21/2020-05/07/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Center Hall, Room 304
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| Faculty: | Trott, Adriel |
| Requisite Courses: | Prerequisites are one of the following: PSC-131, PSC-230, PHI-110,PHI-240 or PHI-242, or permission of the instructor. |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 18 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 19 |
| Calculated Course Status: | CLOSED |
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