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Eichmann in jerusalem - Coggle Diagram
Eichmann in jerusalem
Absolutely obedience
- Even when he heard about the testimony against him, he still doesn't feel like he was wrong. In his opinion, all he did are orders sent by Hitler; even he help Hitler sent million of people to their deaths, he doesn't feel like he is guilty, because he didn't kill anyone personally.
- He was trained to be like this. In other word, if we view him as a solider, he is definitely a good one. He received orders, finished missions, without questioning anything.
- Because of this, he simply accept and join the Nazi without even thinking about it. He never think about consequence for what he did.
- The author, Arendt, are trying to describe a ordinary person, who are lack of critical thinking, and show people how the man will act if he are blindly believe on something wrong.
- Eichmann views Hitler as his leader, or someone who deserve spending his whole life to chase for. In his mind, all duties that he had done are just obedience for Hitler's orders.
- Same situation happens in our daily life. Once people are obedience to someone or something, they will obey their belief and accept the orders without questioning. In their minds, they just do what they should do, just like daily job. They can't see the consequence, which might lead to the damage to other people.
Personalities
- He is not smart. He couldn't graduate from high school.
- Critical thinking is something that he doesn't have.
- Eichmann saw himself as an "idealist".
- He blindly believe on his belief and his "leader".
- His thoughts, or evil, unintentional hurt a lot of people.
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