Hannah Arendt Page #8

capable of making moral judgments.

This inability to think...

created the possibility

for many ordinary men...

to commit evil deeds

on a gigantic scale,

the like of which

one had never seen before.

It is true.

I have considered these questions

in a philosophical way.

The manifestation

of the wind of thought...

is not knowledge,

but the ability

to tell right from wrong,

beautiful from ugly.

And I hope...

that thinking gives people

the strength...

to prevent catastrophes

in these rare moments...

when the chips are down.

Thank you.

Ms. Arendt.

Could we please-

Hans, if I'd known you were here...

I came...

in the insane hope

you would listen to reason.

But you will never change.

Hannah, between your arrogance

and your ignorance, your hopeless

ignorance about Jewish affairs,

you turn a court trial

into a philosophy lesson.

Hans, not now. I'm exhausted.

You behave like a superior German

intellectual who looks down on us Jews.

And you accuse us

of being accomplices to the Shoah.

You never accepted that the Germans

shamefully betrayed you.

They kicked you out and would

have killed you if they could.

Your friend Eichmann was responsible

for the transports from Gurs.

If you hadn't been lucky enough

to escape on time...

you'd have shared the same fate

as the women who stayed.

Stop!

They were all deported.

All deported to...

Stop it, Hans.

As of today...

I am finished

with Heidegger's favorite student.

Everyone is trying to prove me wrong.

But no one noticed my one real mistake.

Evil cannot be

both banal and radical at once.

Evil is only ever extreme.

It's never radical.

Only good can be profound and radical.

Would you have written about the trial

if you'd known what would happen?

Yes.

I would have written about it.

Maybe I had to find out

who my real friends were.

Kurt was your friend.

He still would be.

Kurt was my family.

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