When Hannah Arendt completed her work The Origins of Totalitarianism‚ she essentially took a historical approach for her analysis. The stories of Nazism and Stalinism exhibited the power of reorienting the mass for political purpose. However‚ her work foreshadowed what happened 15 years later in China -- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The key elements reappeared and constituted another experiment of pushing the regime to be totalitarian. I argue that the influence of mass and the strategy
Premium Communism Totalitarianism Nazism
Why Not Everyone Is A Torturer - Oliver Behrensdorff What are the causes of atrocity events such as the massacre at My Lai‚ the abuse and torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib or the extermination of Jews during World War II? Whether groups of people bestowed with unaccountable power naturally resort to violence or not‚ the subject is indeed controversial. Arguably‚ the less restrictions that one must follow‚ the higher the risk becomes of one to condone violence. However‚ how can we explain
Premium Morality Stanford prison experiment Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Project Narrative This project will focus on two primary texts of Hannah Arendt; "The Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man" and Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil‚ while comparing their core theories to main ideologies of Chinese philosophy. In The Decline of the Nation State and the End of the Rights of Man‚" Arendt discusses the situation of stateless people after World War I. She presents how the Minority Treaties signed by The League of Nations illustrate
Premium Adolf Eichmann Nazi Germany Political philosophy
Xxxxxxxxxxx Dear Commsioners: Enclosed you will find information concerning acquisition of excess federal property that is being made available to emergency fire service organizations through the Montana DNRC. The Cooperative Fire Management Agreement that your County has entered into with the State of Montana makes your County eligible to participate in this program. If your County has delegated sufficient authority to your County Fire warden to make financial decisions regarding recovery of Department
Premium Montana Trucks Truck
Here are the ordered pairs: (Chief‚ Joe Montana)(49’ers‚ Joe Montana)‚ (Tom Brady‚ Patriots)‚ (Jets‚ Joe Namath)‚ (Rams‚ Joe Namath)‚ (Cowboys‚ Troy Aikman)‚ (Giants‚ Eli Manning). It would be considered a function because it relates all the elements of a domain. D = {Jets‚ Cowboys‚ 49’ers‚ Patriots‚ Rams‚ Chiefs} Q = {Tom Brady‚ Joe Namath‚ Troy Aikman‚ Joe Montana‚ Eli Manning} Chief 4 49’er Patriots Jets Rams c Cowboys Giants Joe Montana Tom Brady Joe Namath Troy Aikman Eli
Premium Dallas Cowboys Joe Namath Super Bowl
present in the current structure of democracy especially in the United States. The Origins of Totalitarianism The term totalitarianism was coined after the dreadful fight and suffering in the world wars‚ political revolution‚ holocaust‚ and fears. Hannah Arendt was a political philosopher who first handedly understands totalitarianism as a climatic pathology‚ which represents the practices of dictatorship‚ racism‚ colonialism‚ and also a lone government institution (Inceoglu). Accordingly‚ totalitarianism
Premium Totalitarianism Government Political philosophy
------- -------- Professor Williams English 1101-13 23 Febuary 2014 The Perils of Obedience by Stanley Milgram In “The Perils of Obedience‚” Stanley Milgram develops a experiment that puts to test the the question ‚ “Will humans inflict extreme pain to others under the command of higher authority?”. The essay starts off with Milgram explaining the history of obedience by exhibiting the loyalness that was portrayed by followers in historical documents. The experiment that Milgram set up was
Premium Stanford prison experiment Adolf Eichmann Experiment
Review “Montana: Wrongful Discharge from Employment Act” in Chapter 2. Please respond to the following: Identify the parts of this law that appear to benefit employees. ❖ An employer can only discharge an employee for a good cause. ❖ Employees can’t be discharged for reporting a public policy violation. ❖ Employees can’t be discharged for reporting employer’s violation of employer’s own written personnel policy. ❖ If employer commits wrongful discharged‚ employee may be awarded
Premium Employment Ethics Law
Applications of Kant’s Theory In Eichmann in Jerusalem: a report on the banality of evil‚ Hannah Arendt recorded Eichmann’s justification of murdering millions of Jews during the Nuremberg Trials. Eichmann used Kant’s theory of categorical imperative to argue that he should be not held accountable for murder because the ethic of his action was in accordance with that of the general laws during war time. Eichmann also claimed that it was not his own will to kill‚ but purely to perform his duty of
Premium Nazi Germany Immanuel Kant The Holocaust
had. However‚ decades later‚ the movie is praised by people all over the world and considered a classic mob film. Scarface tells a great story that should be recognized by all. Scarface tells the story of a Cuban refugee who goes by the name Tony Montana. He arrives in Miami from Cuba with his friend Manny. After they arrive‚ they quickly realize that lowly work does not suit them. They want to make money the easy way; so they start doing jobs for wealthy drug dealers in Miami. Through the process
Premium Film Al Pacino Illegal drug trade