Making Philosophy Relevant
"Philosophy" comes from the greek words meaning "Love of Wisdom". In fact, philosophy is becoming more and more relevant to our life nowadays, as it provides us with tools to think critically, to analyse logically and to reason persuasively.
As the first collaboration between Goethe-Institut Hongkong and Corrupt the Youth, "Making philosophy relevant" introduces some of the most important names and concepts in German philosophy to the general public through six talks.
To kick off the series, we will show the film
Hannah Arendt + host the talk
Looking at the life of Hannah Arendt and her philosophy.
The Film:
Hannah Arendt © Heimatfilm
HANNAH ARENDT
109 mins, 2012, with English + Chinese subtitles, Cat I
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Story:
In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hanna Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war-criminal, Adolf Eichmann. While observing the legal proceedings, the Holocaust survivor concludes that Eichmann was not a simple monster, but an ordinary man who thoughtlessly buried his conscience through his obedience to the Nazi Regime and its ideology. Arendt's expansion of this idea through her resulting New Yorker articles would create the concept of the "Banality of Evil" that she thought even sucked in some Jewish leaders of the era into unwittingly participating in the Holocaust. The result is a bitter public controversy in which Arendt is accused of blaming the Holocaust's victims. Now, that strong willed intellectual is forced to defend her daringly innovative ideas about moral complexity in a struggle that will exact a heavy personal cost.
The Talk:
LOOKING AT THE LIFE OF HANNAH ARENDT AND HER PHILOSOPHY
Guest Speaker: 白水 (Corrupt the Youth)
Language: Cantonese
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