IS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Tyrant, Psychological Types, Instrumental And Value Rationality
12 May 2016
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The origins of totalitarianism she wants to point out that tot is the most brutal. Such as the rigorous belief of abstract knowledge, a privileging type of rationalism, the idea of abstract groups: races and nations. Technical expertise; to organize people like the holocaust, stalin What she is doing here is based on a book she wrote called the origins of totalitarianism. Nazi germany and stalin: the lesson to be taken is not that they spring from a particular people, Germans/fascists, but in modern mass society this type of behaviour already exists but people in these countries crystallize on the already present beliefs. Arendt starts off saying that there has been a tendency to look at government types in categories democracy, aristocracy, tyranny. In totalitarianism, we have something new and we want to make sure we understand this. You cannot put government types into psychological types honest people like monarchies.
