Packet H: Tossup 14

A thinker claimed a form of this concept was unknown to Western tradition after a letter from Karl Jaspers cryptically noted “Hasn’t Yahweh faded too far out of sight?” An essay in The Jew as Pariah compares this concept to fungus on the world’s surface because (-5[1])it lacks depth. The final pages of a book note that only Kant had even conceived of a form of this concept that emerged (10[1])alongside political systems which make men superfluous. A book purporting (-5[1])to be a “Report” on an aspect (-5[1])of this concept (10[1])describes a “clown” defendant speaking clichés because (10[1])he (10[1])lacks (10[1])the ability to think. (10[5]-5[3])The Origins (10[2])of Totalitarianism (10[3])hypothesizes (10[1])about the “radical” (10[1])form of (10[1])this concept, (10[7]-5[1])which the (-5[1])author (10[1])reformulated (10[1])after observing the trial of Adolf Eichmann (10[6]-5[1])in (-5[1])Jerusalem. (10[5])For 10 points, (10[3])Hannah (10[2])Arendt described (10[2])the (10[1]-5[1])“banality” (10[12])of what (10[2])moral (10[3])concept? (10[3])■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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