The Evil of Banality

Elizabeth K. Minnich

doi:10.5771/9781442275973

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Copyright year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4422-7595-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4422-7597-3
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 244
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. Thinking Close-in No access
2. Why Do I Write? No access
3. More Personally No access
4. Hannah Arendt, “The Banality of Evil” No access
5. The Evil of Banality No access
6. Meaningful Contexts, Larger Systems No access
7. Overview No access
8. Secular Moral Thinking No access
1. 1. Philosopher, Resistance Fighter No access
  2. An Ordinary Town No access
  3. On Being Unprepared No access
  4. Extraordinary No access
  5. Attending to the Smallest Things No access
2. 1. Thinking, Morality No access
  2. Crucial Contexts, Changing Times No access
  3. Stopping Minds No access
  4. Two-faced Evil No access
  5. Adolf Eichmann, Saddam Hussein No access
  6. Out of Touch No access
  7. Self-centered No access
  8. A Continuum of Attentiveness No access
3. 1. Transitioning No access
  2. Reversing No access
  3. The Heart of the Matter No access
  4. Thought Experiments No access
4. 1. Catch-all Phrases No access
  2. No General Rules No access
  3. As Spiders Spin Webs: Abstractions No access
  4. Reconfiguring Meanings No access
5. 1. Clarifying Thinking No access
  2. A Note of Caution No access
  3. Beyond Bad: Moral Horror No access
  4. Rational, Irrational, Antirational No access
  5. Incomprehensibility and the Unique No access
  6. Those Who Know No access
  7. Politics of Fear, Terror No access
  8. Intentional No access
  9. Breeding Grounds No access
  10. “Don’t Look Back” No access
  11. Stop, and Think No access
6. 1. “The Nonwicked Everybody” No access
7. 1. Focus on Intensive Evil No access
  2. “Evil”? or “Bad,” “Sick,” “Abnormal” No access
  3. Crossing from “Wrong,” to “Taboo,” to “Possessed” No access
  4. Not Just Crimes No access
  5. Focus on Extensive Evil No access
  6. Reliable Workers No access
  7. Objections No access
  8. “A Murderous Rage” No access
  9. Revealing Resistance No access
  10. It Really Is That Bad—and That Common, and Easy No access
  11. Not “Bad Apples”; Perhaps Golden Ones No access
  12. Speaking Truth to Ourselves No access
8. 1. Habituation No access
  2. Common Sense No access
  3. Processing Reality No access
  4. More Morality? No access
  5. Education No access
  6. Moving on the Continuum of Attentiveness No access
1. 1. Moral Thinking No access
  2. Conventional Thoughtlessness: The Opposite of Extensive Good No access
  3. “Stupid,” “Dull”—and Not No access
2. 1. Observations from Close-in No access
3. 1. Selfish Integrity: Moral Introverts and Extroverts No access
  2. Complex Relations between Intensive and Extensive Good No access
  3. Timing and Judgment No access
  4. Modestly Conserving Values No access
  5. Good Learning No access
  6. Acting Well No access
4. 1. Good Stories May Mislead No access
  2. Is “Great” to “Good” as “Evil” Is to “Bad”? No access
  3. Purposes, Problems of Religion No access
  4. Overreaching Good No access
  5. Supererogation Again No access
  6. Making a Real Difference No access
  7. Not to Know but to Do the Good No access
1. 1. Exploring Indifference No access
  2. “Groupthink” No access
  3. Careerism No access
  4. Catchy Superficiality No access
  5. “A Done Deal” No access
  6. Occupied Minds, On Track No access
  7. Reframings: “Misfortune,” “Fate,” “The Workings of History” No access
  8. Changing Memories, and Loyalties No access
  9. Insults, Peer Pressure, Sex/Gender Identities No access
  10. Cleanliness, Purity No access
  11. “Edifying Phrases” No access
  12. Blurred Generalizations, Sliding Over Differences, Contradictions No access
2. 1. Scientizing No access
  2. Closed Systems, Alternative Realities No access
  3. “Realism” VERSUS Responsiveness No access
  4. Nationalisms, Racialisms: Abstract Identities Writ in Blood No access
  5. Always Again: Sex, Sexuality, Gender No access
3. 1. Institutionalizing Corrupting Relations No access
  2. “Base Instincts” Conventionalized No access
  3. Chameleons: In and Out, Off and On Duty No access
  4. Status No access
  5. Boredom No access
  6. Working Free No access
  7. Being Conscientious No access
  8. Transporting Categories: Medicalizing No access
  9. Escapism, Vacations, R and R No access
4. 1. The Trifecta: Greed, Careerism, Status No access
  2. Stilling Consciousness from Which Conscience Can Arise No access
  3. Jobholders: Thinking What We Are Doing No access
5. 1. What May We Hope? No access
  2. What Ought WE to Do? No access
Notes No access Pages 219 - 228
Bibliography No access Pages 229 - 234
Index No access Pages 235 - 242
Author Biography No access Pages 243 - 244