Overwhelming Complexities: Between Rome and Jerusalem

Abstract: In the search for an understanding of the complexities that could have led such a “banal” man as Adolf Eichmann, to stand trial in Jerusalem for crimes against Humanity – in the humanity of the Jewish People – one ought to go beneath the surface of contemporary events into the roots of an overwhelming hatred that enslaved Europe for far too long and with consequences beyond what imagination could have conceived within the limits of reason alone. In the pursuit for the “black hole” that brought European nations to a virtual ethical collapse, seriously damaging the capacity to exercise judgment, this article approaches one of the background dimensions of anti-Semitism which enabled the actions of men to structure evil in all but a “banal” manner. The second part of this study seeks alternative ways to conceive a relation between Judaism and Christianity.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Overwhelming Complexities: Between Rome and Jerusalem ; volume:6 ; number:1 ; year:2023 ; extent:21 ; Open Philosophy ; 6, Heft 1 (2023) (gesamt 21)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Duarte de Oliveira, Manuel

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/opphil-2022-0261
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023121613053106293212
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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