1 result for (book:nome AND session:852 AND stemmed:good AND stemmed:evil)
14/27 (52%)
Hitler
Aryan
Germany
Jews
grandiose
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(10:27.) At what expense is “the good” to be achieved — and whose idea of the good is to be the criterion? Man’s pursuit of the good, to some extent now, fathered the Inquisition and the Salem witch hunts. [...] Some people believe that homosexuals and lesbians are “evil,” that somehow they lack the true qualities of humanness [and therefore need not be treated with normal respect]. These are all value judgments involving your ideas of the good.
Whose good (question mark)? Is “good” an absolute (question mark)? In your arena of events, obviously, one man’s good can be another’s disaster. [Adolf] Hitler pursued his version of “the good” with undeviating fanatical intent. [...]
When you are discussing the nature of good and bad, you are on tricky ground indeed, for many — or most — of man’s atrocities to man have been committed in misguided pursuit of “the good.”
[...] It was because Hitler was so convinced of the existence of evil in the individual psyche, that he set up all of his rules and regulations to build up and preserve “Aryan purity.” The Jews’ idea was also a dark one, in which their own rules and regulations were set to preserve the soul’s purity against the forces of evil. [...]
[...] The intent to save American lives was certainly “good” — at the expense of the Japanese this time. In that regard, America’s good was not Japan’s, and an act taken to “save life” was also designed to take individual lives.
Good evening.
(“Good evening, Seth.”)
[...] “The evil must be plucked out.” [...]
[...] Hitler’s idea of good was hardly inclusive, therefore, and any actions, however atrocious, were justified.
How did Hitler’s initially wishy-washy undefined ideals of nationalistic goodness turn into such a world catastrophe? [...]
