Because I was reading "Between the Past and the Future", I was exposed to the complicated and rigorous structure of the text depicting the flow of logical thoughts, I felt like a leaf of a boat, from the Yiqing novel article Xiaohe into the river of philosophical speculation, and I was barely ignorant. Grasp the trend of high-level thought in the book. Therefore, I want to learn about such an extraordinary and wise philosopher from the movie of the same name. Perhaps it will be beneficial for me to understand Hannah Arendt and read the book at hand.
In order to avoid giving people the impression that the wisdom of philosophical thinkers is almost cold, the film shows the sweetness of Arendt's family life, and the respect of his colleagues and students as a professor, and uses many details to shape the delicateness and cultivation of the characters. In this way, many people in the film, including her Jewish compatriots, accused her of the sanity of her higher intellectuals. Because she did not use the national sentiment as the starting point to make ruthless moral accusations against the Nazi Adolf Eichmann, but from the perspective of human nature, the spirit of the Germans at that time belonged to a state of blind worship of the head of state and incompetence of thinking. The world needs to maintain independent thinking to avoid the vigilance of repeating the same mistakes. He also put forward suggestions on the attitude of the Jews in dealing with the survival of European countries, which caused all the Jews to be furious: they actually wanted to reflect on their mistakes in order to befall their own extinction!
Philosophy is not a mode of thinking with sympathy and standpoint. Philosophy has no distinction between nationality and ethnicity. It should be a co-coordination of human high-level consciousness, with the spirit surpassing the flesh. On the other hand, people in the world are trapped by their own dignity or common sense, and refuse to agree with "other unreasonable views" from their own absolute standpoint. This is a desperate thing for Arendt, "Except for my friends, I have never loved my own nation." It sounds cold, but in fact, as a philosophical novice, it is completely obtainable. This is close to the "truth". "Necessary conditions. Arendt proposed a kind of "banal evil", and his point of view is right in my heart. Because while watching the movie, in the chat window that was opening, many people were talking about the humane cleansing of Muslims, the inferiority of Indian Asan’s eating with their hands, and the Japanese being a hybrid product of the Celestial and the Ezo. What thinking shows is not knowledge, but the ability to distinguish right from wrong and the ability to judge beauty and ugliness. And these subordinate remarks are exposing the "banal evil" of the heavenly people who lack conscience and judgment. This kind of incompetence in thinking has laid a foundation for committing large-scale crimes, which is more evil than human selfishness. Centralization, like the evil of the Nazis, cannot be created by individual ambitious individuals. It grows on a hotbed of banal evil. "No snowflake feels responsible during an avalanche." The incompetence of human tragic thinking is heralding the destruction of a new avalanche.
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