About the book
In 1963 political theorist Hannah Arendt, a Jew who had fled Germany as Hitler rose to power, published her report on the Jerusalem trial of Adolf Eichmann, a central organizer of the Holocaust, which she had covered for The New Yorker. The phrase the banality of evil, first introduced in its subtitle, partly describes Eichmann in court: he showed no guilt, no hatred for his judges, and claimed no responsibility because he had simply done his job. Arendt weighs his testimony against the historical evidence, noting his stock phrases and official jargon, his lifelong need to join organizations and his misreading of Kant's categorical imperative. A revised and enlarged edition appeared in 1964.
Zeall founder Lucas Morales came to it through Ian Shapiro's Yale open course on the moral foundations of political science, and said it changed his view of the defence industry careers most graduates of his university pursued.
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Lucas Morales (Founder & CEO/Zeall.us)
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.
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