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Eichmann, Oppenheimer, and the Perils of Blind Obedience

Eichmann, Oppenheimer, and the Perils of Blind Obedience

In deviating from a Thrasymachean conception of justice, Oppenheimer enters a Socratic domain that puts the collective good into the foreground.

Nietzsche and Arendt’s Warnings Against Totalitarianism

Nietzsche and Arendt’s Warnings Against Totalitarianism

Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt have both been misinterpreted with regard to their attitude toward the Nazis, but in fact they both hold very strong and uncompromising anti-Nazi views.