How Good People Turn Evil | Kafka's In The Penal Colony
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- Justice is one of the oldest philosophical virtues and topics. It was singled out by Plato as one of the highest questions philosophers could ask. But what about when the psychology of justice gets perverted. What about when we commit horrific and cruel acts all in the name of justice. Well that is just what Kafka explores in his landmark short story: In the Penal Colony.
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00:00 Kafka on Justice
01:26 The Cruelty of Morality
04:50 The Banality of Evil
08:26 The Aesthetics of Evil
12:00 The Mirror of Morality
15:24 Revenge, Resentment, and Moral Standards
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CLARIFICATION:
A couple of people have questioned my use of the Spanish Inquisition as an example here. I want to clarify I didn’t mean that they were uniquely evil or extreme compared with other instruments of religious persecution (I could have just as easily pointed to examples in the UK, or the late Mughal Empire). I fully accept that the Spanish Inquisition was not as extreme as has been previously thought in the 19th century (indeed, I had assumed this was common knowledge). However, I don’t think that it follows from this that it didn’t commit acts of religious terror, just that they were on a smaller scale. You can still find historical accounts of their killings, confiscation of property etc. I think it is important not to replace one simplistic historical narrative with another here. Either way if you don’t like the example feel free to ignore it or replace it for any other ideologically motivated cruelty.
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I remember a valuable lesson I learned in love, " justice without empathy is, simply, revenge".
Revenge is evolutionarily far more valuable. We wouldn't be here if we weren't the type of species to eliminate entire others species for singular offenses.
"THE MORE YOU STARE INTO THE ABYSS, THE MORE IT STARES BACK INTO YOU"
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Stare long enough and you'll realize you are the abyss.
I find the abyss super emotionally unavailable barely paying attention let alone looking at me
You are very intelligent, watching your videos helps me to view the world in a different way and work towards undoing my biases.
Ah thank you! That’s very kind
One should never let a chance go by to use the beautiful word "kafkaesque"!
I couldn't agree more (though funnily enough, I didn't have cause to use it this video)
@unsolicitedadvice9198 the title he meant the title
Cringe
Breaking bad moment ☝️
Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut’s “somebody shoot me while I’m happy!!” Never miss a chance
The "the aesthetics of evil" part is very true. The comment section of videos about war planes, tanks and ww2 german uniforms is a great example. They are so mesmerized by the intricacies of the war machine that they really don't care about all the human suffering.
Creepy feeling the human conscience has left the building
When you mentioned how can we get along without having a moral code it immediately reminded me to mention that we don't have to keep going without a moral code, what we have to do is to stop enforcing our moral code AS law. Moral codes were always and only intended to be a form of guidance in the semetic religions and never as a penal system.
“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.” - Kafka
Morality is like an agent sent by society to the mind palace, a bit like the concept of "superego". The moral agent in your mind palace will tell you what to do instead of what you think you should do. If the influence of the moral agent becomes stronger and stronger, the agent can take over your mind palace. From then on, you are no longer the master of yourself and your thought palace. You become a servant of morality. You don’t need to think and judge by yourself anymore. Morality will tell you what is right, what is wrong, and what should you do, how should you live.
I just read this book very recently, I have just finished it today. And I found a different version within it. I found a man bound by tradition and the inability to change due to past and the inability to question such past. Linking with what you said regarding following a leader and refusing ones own moral compass and once a new age has set and the true brutality is seen for what it is, it as if the man has given himself to newer times and to end the ability of the pain caused as the new age takes over with the new commandant. I find you reasoning comforting as it fills in some blanks I had. Wonderful explanation
your abilities as a lecturer are amazing. squeeze the essence, ignore the fluff, make it vivid, make it alive. thanks a lot again. and waiting to see where your mind goes to next!
In college I picked up The Metamorphosis & other short stories. Figured they’d be easy reads and I thought The Met.. was interesting enough back in high school. Little did I know how vivid, and existentially questionable these stories were gonna be. Still some of my favorite reads today, though a bit scarring! Nice video!
Yeah what a bummer lol I’m Gregor
your content makes me feel more alive. Thank you!
just finished reading it, and went straight to your channel. Love your analysis
You are killing it with these videos. This channel is gunna blow up soon
Amazing video as always. Thank you so much for your thoughts
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
i’m reading the trial now and only found your channel last night crazy coincidence that you made this video now!
Just found your channel today at work and I genuinely believe this is the best philosophy channel on this platform. Keep up the good work man.
Thank you! I am really glad you are enjoying the videos
I would like to say i noticed the very very subtle use of the 1984 reference where you were talking questioning moralities evil and seeing through its asthetics where you quickly gave the the 2+2=4 point. Your a bloody sharp man with your subtlety
Ah thank you! I try to sprinkle a couple of references in some of the scripts. It makes them more fun to write
Hello, I wanted to say thank you so much for your videos. I was really interested in your content regarding Kafka's works and so today I bought Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and many other short stories. I can't wait to finish them so I can see your take on them, and I am now much more interested in different types of texts and philosophical topics!
Keep up the amazing work friend. Inspiration for my own analysis per usual
Wow ,who would imagine seeing you here
Love your stuff bro! Keep at it!
I just discovered your channel and i wonder why isnt it more popular.
Thank you! And to be fair I haven't been doing it properly for that long, and I am already blown away by the amount of support I have got
Because the truth is bitter medicine for which the stupid and unwilling see that there is little incentive😢
brilliant video that explains the human tendency for merely and moraly disqualify others end exercise Cruelty... well done!
I discovered your channel recently! I love it, your videos are brilliant. You inspire me to pursue my personnal study on philosophy, thanks a lot for your hard work because it is very inspiring!
I introduced my friend who learned English as a second language and he thinks you speak fast but said your pace on Thoreau’s video How to be happy was better and all of the words sank in ,but appreciated inclusion of subtitles since it makes things easier.I told him you speak normal with excellent articulation and I have encountered by far people who speak at an accelerating pace than this ,as usual I understand everything and adore your elocution ,keep it up.
As always a great video.
Never really read much of Kafka's philosophy, but looks like I missed some great thoughts.
Great video as always.
Thank you!
I love Kafka and he's really underrated among literary academics, romantics, and philosophy students. I'm glad he's starting to get more and more recognition these days as his work pops up here and there.
Ty for breaking this down
Great video as always
Thank you! I am glad you liked it
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 loved it!! I really love your insights!! Such philosophical reflections are really important and help me alot to view things from a different angle while reading some of the works you talk about...!! You're such a great underrated thinker.
This seems very accurate and poetic. You've accurately described what is currently happening to the collective West, as well as those who benefited from the systems they've established.
Highly illuminating ❤
Thank you!
Very interesting observations.
great video. i was gonna read this book but some reviews said it was boring and dragged on senselessly (typical of surrealist authors). the philosophy bits are the meat and potatoes to me, and this video has all of that in a succinct amount of time. good job.
Im very impressed with ur in-depth and insight on Nietzsche.💙
Ah thank you! I am glad you are liking the videos
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Definitely. Just shared it with my friends. I always thought of him as a person deeply troubled. I think he kNew to much and became overwhelmed with societies Idiocracy. At the end of his life it all came crashing down. People are kruel and self serving. Nietzsche became despondent, borderline schizophrenic.
Our society today is not any better just bitter. Smh
Love your videos
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The way he's passionatly talking is so attractive.
Thank you for inserting the image of S. Paul's crucifixion.
Remarkable Channel ❤
Thank you! That's very kind!
Black mirror has an episode that has always felt very kafkaesque to me, "white bear" is the name,
potential spoilers
it's essentially the tormenting of someone who once tormented another, they gain joy from putting this person through what they think equates to the crime the criminal inflicted on another, and really makes you think. At some point, acting on enough "revenge" makes you just as bad as the person, as you both gained joy from harming others.
Im half asleep, hope that made sense
i really enjoyed this video.
Very well made
Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it
Great upload, any plans to upload to Spotify in the future? Would love to have your content in the background at work
Best book report ever.
Thank you!
Liked before the video got start ...☺️ ...
Ah that truly is a vote of confidence. Thank you
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Please make a video on brothers karmazov. And thank you for this beautiful one
Thank you! And I definitely plan to. I am saving it for when I have a video editor on board though as I want it to be a long one
Much appreciated brother. I'm a regular viewer
You briefly mentioned foucault. It would be amazing if you made a video about his work!
I would love to at some point! I am thinking of doing a joint video on Discipline and Punish and 1984, but I am still brainstorming that one
'Tactical lack of imagination' beautiful
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
You've got the diction, the voice, the cadence, and the passion all right my man! I really enjoy your interpretations and insights. Do you write the scripts yourself or do you have writers?
Also I really respect the fact that you post corrections in the comments, it displays integrity.
Ah thank you! And at the moment I do everything myself. My goal for this year is to get a video editor, but I plan to always write the scripts myself as it is my favourite part
In Germany we say Recht haben und Recht bekommen sind 2 verschiedene Dinge.
"To be right and get right are 2 different things."
Because laws and judges are often unfair.
For example Family court is always benefiting ppl based on their genetalia
startiing watching now but already love the vibe. Not first one watched i, like your style
Ah thank you! That's kind of you to say
Wonderful explanation, thank you. You're making great videos, and this is one of my favourite stories (probably says something about me). A couple of nit-picks; I'd say associating Hannah Arendt's work with the now common meaning of 'the banality of evil' is a disservice, and Milgram's work is mostly bad science, perhaps made infamous more in the cause of justifying misanthropy (although not here)
Thank you for watching! I agree that Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil has been sort of watered down over the years, and I also get what you mean about Milgram (especially re: him potentially falsifying results) however in the case of this experiment since it has been replicated so many times I thought on balance it was still a useful one to reference
Brilliant, you hit all of it. The song 96 teardrops comes to mind. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. Hannah Arendt is a great thinker and much of her work is applicable now as much as any past. If you find yourself like Joseph K, like The Stranger, or like this protagonist, you’ve got to appreciate the beauty and greatness in martyrdom, Jesus said I am the way, the fire waits for all of us to walk through. This realm sucks, it’s smoke and mirrors run by the very same Canaanites from antiquity. They make liars and cowards of us and all our children too, but how do you end it, the worst of men stop at nothing to climb to control and soon after reason becomes treason. Each of us needs ask ourselves if self preservation is the highest state we are capable of. The question is made more difficult when we are led to believe this is our one and only incarnation and that’s convenient for the controllers. Better to eject into the unknown like Orr in Catch 22, that novel by J HELLer. Orr, the man with the plan to leave madness behind and forge his own way as his own man….what a god!
Actually the bible is full of propaganda, including the myth of the 'Canaanites' who were actually the Phoenicians who ended up destroyed by the Romans their reputation razed to the ground along with their history--an example itself of not challenging beliefs, (just as in Gaza today as they are razed to the ground--nothing changes).
I once saw a discussion over an attempt people were making to protest execution by lethal injection, deeming it needlessly cruel. Their belief was that the death was potentially still painful and that the terror of feeling your system shut down was inhumane.
This was then discussed in the context of it replacing the electric chair as a humane alternative back in the day, and how the chair was the humane alternative to the firing line, which was better than the gallows, etc.
If one wished they could draw a line all the way back to the first time someone suggested bashing someone with a rock to be “a little distasteful” and project a line all the way forward to simply letting criminals free because the discomfort of being arrested is too much. Certainly there must be a Goldilocks zone between sadistic cruelty and moralistic paralysis? Otherwise how would one deliver any Justice at all?
Very cool, however, I have a hard time taking any form of argument against justice or morality seriously. The sorts of individuals who would push moral subjectivism are those who fear their own wrongdoings will catch up to them. Those who rail against revenge are those who fear that revenge will be taken against them.
To be fair, this isn’t so much an argument against justice, but rather an observation of how the concept can be used in practice. Nothing about that is incompatible with the idea that there might be objective moral truths (though I myself am a non-cognitivist about such matters)
Penal colony is my favorite Kafka´s masterpiece, Franc Kafka is a Prague born genius!!!
Always question the "experts."
Scary how easy it is to deshumanize others in the name of our moral values...and taking a look at the world today seems like we'll never change. Maybe it's just our nature.
Great analysis on Kafka and I also appreciate the effort of adding subtitles not being english my first language.
Hope you could make a video or videos about The Brothers Karamazov in the near future, It's my favourite book and Dostoyevsky makes interesting explorations on evil as well. I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks!!
Thank you! And It is certainly in my plans for this year
For me is more scary how everybody moralizes at lenght about the easiness of deshumanization, blaming the victims instead of the psychopathic perpetrators. Who have all the means necessary to use the natural instincts of normal people to turn them against them, pursuing their own evil goals.
@@alena-qu9vjYes, psychopaths in a position of power are terrifying and unfortunately, it's us, the "normal people" who puts them in that position of power most of the time.
In what way talking about dehumanization puts the blame on victims?
@@Ana_MF We do not put the psychopaths in a position of power willingly , our "democracy" is an intentional and malevolent trap. Psychopaths come to power (where their mostly family clans stay for hunderts of years) misusing the peoples natural intentions and emotions, because they themselves have mostly no or perverted emotions. Try to research under "ponerology". Normal people are practically defensless against there un-human, albeit very sofisticated methods of manipulation.
Our "votes" are uninformed, and cannot be informed, because the whole system intentionaly hides the information from us.
So, again, you are blaming the victims in blaming "us" .
@@Ana_MFBeing lambs to the slaughter rather than following a better shepherd. Basic accountability for how we fall into "circumstances" has basically been lost.
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The Penal Colony is one of the greatest short stories ever. Kafka takes you there to this horrific and realistic world.
Its atmosphere is almost oppressive. It really feels like you are in the room with them
I wonder if people would deliver the shock if they were told by say, a ten year old, or maybe a grocery store clerk, a neighbor? The authority figure I feel like gives this aura of what society deems as normal and okay and what is right. We are more likely to go along with ANY social norms
Because humans as a species we need to stay in our group to survive it’s instinct.
This young man is a genius
Logic is indeed not justifiable, and also logic does not regulate thought. Thoughts are not regulated, they are automatic outcomes of the brain.
You are the veritable reincarnation of the great thespian Edmund Kean...🔮👑
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A little unrelated but isn't it annoying when you point someone's misdoings and people respond with pointing yours as a way to say "who are you to judge?", it feels hypocritical. They tell you not to judge others unless you're perfect, but they judge you anyway. And that's supposed to make the first thing you pointed out invalid? They're just trying to justify their bad actions by saying everyone does them.
The truth is, they don't care about morality or justice. They only care about putting you down and avoiding responsibility. They are the ones who are betraying the moral system, not you.
I think we should all be able to judge right from wrong, and hold ourselves and others accountable. That's the only way we can improve ourselves and our society, and not to sink into further mistakes (we should do it with understanding though, sometimes people just make mistakes or have different perspectives, and that doesn’t mean they are immoral. I think we should try to help each other, rather than condemn each other)
It just occurred to me by the end of the video that there is no such thing as an absence of philosophy. Therefore I would say to those who deem it a worthless pursuit, what are you afraid of?
Depends on how you define philosophy and pursuit. There is an aboundance of philosophers and theories, but a pursuit in a sence of making and following YT channels alone is for sure worthless. The only thing wortwhile is to follow ethical standards in your real life. And ethic is something else then hypocritical moral.
Needs to define the range in which he uses the term morality. Upon which he uses to comment on morality as often expereinced in the way he is right to decry. But moral value is based on deeper spiritual and necessary values that cannot be abused wothiut abusing ourselves as well. Good. I appreciated how power and midplaced devotion to authorities of bad faith corrupt themselves along the way. And may corrupt us.
One morning, in my classroom, when I was 10yo, our teacher (a huge despotic white man) while repeating a lesson from the previous week, said that the right angle has 60°.
I straightaway corrected him saying it actually has 90°.
He suddenly had a burst of anger, became all red, and shouted that I should not interrupt him ever.
He then kept going with the lesson and after a couple of minutes he repeated the right angle is a 60° one (of course he was having some kind of Freudian slip).
I intervened again and confidently said it actually was a 90° one.
This time he got enraged: his face looked like a monster one, he came closer to me and screamed to me with unprecedented aggressivity.
The whole class was now between intimidated and terrified, included me.
The point is that my class was made by 25 pupils and that we all knew well what a right angle is because we had freshly studied it.
But in spite of that, nobody rose his/her hand to support the undisputable truth.
It has nothing to do with following authority. People will inflict moral judgments and punishments if people around them are. They will do it by themselves, if they think they won’t be called on it.
The facial expressions at the intro were everythingg you're so fucking handsome
4. On Morality
Authority vs Balance
a. The Morality of Pattern-Objectivity [Line Of Authority]
Pattern-Objectivity is about a set of values that one is obedient to that enables family heritage that can be found going back to the authority of Dimensional Law. A Dimensional Law confers an essence that authorizes a black & white adherence [Ethics] to the same number that the law correlates with. In otherwords, Obedience ennables a delegated authority to act upon an alignment of values. Each Universal Number distinguished from the heirarchy of numbers represents a Law based upon respect of the sameness of adherence of that number to The Pattern Of Creation from whence that law emerged & continues. Why? Because Authority is to Ethics which is Black & White & is suppose to be compatible with the black & white of science to ennable a contribution to The Pattern Of Creation. Because Peerdom is the nature of what Determinism forces all laws to seek, Free-Will exists to allow frictionlessness that diferentiates one individual from another in terms of their identity's authority. Therefore Knowledge & Definition are premised by Faith, [which is the ability to act without knowledge to create an experience that becomes the basis of developed definition] of which there must be an alignment for a successful action to occur. Heirarchy is about continued self-determination & allows there to be a separation event to preserve this authority. This is the nature of Authority. 1 rule....The Pattern Of Creation. This choice becomes my paired instinct.
b. The Morality of Instinct/Conscience [Island Of Authority]
The "Little" Authority that is Prejudice. Prejudice is the nature of the Innate [meaning from birth]. It is the immutable pre-mortal [aka Apriori-Instinct] programming & the common-instinct of being moral so that one does not have to long-hand an explanation to themselves or another in order to make an argument. The Isms are the discipline instincts that incline us to favor certain patterns that are sensed to contribute to our well-being. This includes discriminatory isms as well. Taking a risk proves the instinct according to the different levels of action. This includes running away because one must still be brave enough to face ancestors....but that's picking a fight with them now isn't it....
c. The Morality of Love/Everyman-Fallacy/Dogma-Inclusivity [also balance]
The incomplete & dogmatic argument that love is all one needs & that power is plentiful because of it, therefore there are to be no restrictions on identity & behavior that are not a continuity of The Pattern of Creation. It means that Love is imperfect & blinds people to the truth. In otherwords, Love is about obedience to a rigid list of importance. Importance is also another term for love.
d. The Morality of Balance/The Flip-Flop Conspiracy/Falling-Circumspection
Balance is not Ethics/Morality. Balance is adherence & discipline of force in the physical paradigm to have a mathematical/geometric alignment. Sense of Balance is part of the Enforcement of Ethics, is Pressure-Based, & is therefore grey source of suffering when we don't have balance because pressure is what caused the loss of homeo-stasis in the first place. Mono-Heirarchy is the idea behind Equality & is where there is the assumption of balance as an ethics merely because it is abstract & presumes to have authority because of the abstract. Balance attempts to represent itself with The "Golden Rule" that goes as "Do unto others as though wouldst be done unto" & presumes that people are all the same in their authority & needs & destiny [which is not the case]. Then there is the old phrase, "Do the means justify the end or does the end justify the means?" Balance cannot restore meaning [ethical purpose] to the means or the end because the question presented by an alternative balance had interrupted the means & the end being enforcement & realized. The presence of an equation is the sign of a conflict that needs to be reconciled & some equations were never meant to be solved. No one wants Equality except for when claims match facts. Therefore "Evil" does not know how to exist in silence, because God spoke & Terminal-Opportunists couldn't keep their promise of obedience, thus they aligned themselves to attack authority at the end given the opportunity.
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17:00 Its always a good story when the man trated poorly, gets back at he who did it. Well uaually, sometimes it seems to just destroy the victim and make him a monster.
The very nature of claiming morality immoral is...certainly an idea, but it again shows why the so-called enlightened people were never truly enlightened just somewhat thoughtful busy bodies.
I wouldn’t say it is morality being immoral, but rather the cloak of moral ascriptions being used to do immoral things (think how Stalin called the innocent people he executed “traitors to the party” and similar language).
Though I will admit, my personal aspiration is to be a somewhat thoughtful busybody
I grew up in conservative red states and thought their general application and behavior coercion based on their own morals was annoying and presumptuous. 2009-2014 was a great time, before the socially aware erudite scholars started doing the same thing. I can’t wait for the next gap period. 14:30 there is a shocking trend in convicted pedophiles hating anime fan service, and people hating anime fan service later getting arrested in unrelated pedophile busts. Smash player abtin, some Esports announcer, Lion maker, etc
If you cant fathom man's resolve is indeed wicked, you won't understand Lucifer's greatest ploy
Justice is a form of revenge really hit me... but what about cold hearted criminals.. im from india here goons who have committed homicides or multiple attempts of homicide will go in prison for few years comes out then keeps on doing crime even again committing homicide.. what did they learn from the prison time, they didn't learn anything but to them prison are like a 2nd home. Im from kerala, a south indian state here the prisoners are having healthy diet than 50 percent of the population... majority of criminals are not redeemable.. some may change during prison time.... i want you to do a video on batman
I’ve never really bought into the idea that revenge is always bad. I think it should be acceptable as long as it’s of equal value, meaning you don’t go overboard.
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What do you think of Hegel?
I find what I have read of him interesting, but I am a lot less familiar than I would like to be with his work
Reminds me of the social justice people and the government and the WEF
So this is actually kind of the same story as that twilight zone episode where they condemned a man to death for believing in god, only for the man to trick his accuser to cry out to god for help, which make the council accuse him of also believing in god
Neither *I* nor Kafka…
So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ? ”Matthew 27:17
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Hey, Who is your Favourite philosopher 🙄
Completely unrelated question, but do you plan to share with public your political opinions? Or maybe it doesn't worth the risks?
I like your videos :D
Thank you! And to be honest it is more of a matter of simply not knowing much about politics, and an awareness of how much it is already talked about. I can't help but feel I would just be a very uninformed person not adding very much to the conversation. There is also the matter of politics being something that one is unable to change their mind about without causing a lot of upset, and since I try to change my opinions I learn more about something, talking about politics would end up being a bit self-defeating.
In short, I don't talk too much about politics because I would probably end up saying something unoriginal badly.
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this video is about twitter users
The forced subtitles really prevent me from focusing on the video
lmao he said "penal"
Right off the bat this is a rediculous, and self defeating argument.
Not to say many people havent abused and twisted the concept justice, and morality to their own ends through history. They most certiantly have.
But to even assert that someone is doing something wrong by using morals, and justice as a means to an end to just hurt people they dont like. or just get what they want by all possible means; that in itself requires that some kind of true objective morality/justice does indeed exist that these people are in violation of by their actions. Without that there is no rational way to call anything they do wrong, the only truth to it would be that they were smarter/stronger/faster, and just all around better than you and/or the happenstance of life just ended up in their favor. Without invoking justice/morality you cant even begin to acuse that someone is doing something wrong by using those concepts to their own end.
Sorry I think I’ve been misunderstood, the video isn’t about justice or morality as a metaphysical concept, but exactly as you say - how it can be twisted for cruel ends. And I certainly wouldn’t say it happens in all cases, just that it is an interesting subject that it sometimes is. I lean towards emotivism about morality so I don’t really mind about the metaphysics
@@unsolicitedadvice9198 ah
Perhaps that is the case that I misunderstood the aim.
What you mean good people do evil things, did you understand what is good people?, critic to frans kafka,
The scowl channel
Haha!
Remember Kafka was depressed. Probably a nihilist.
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Brother please listen to me for a while. Im from india and i from a very poor background. By some means i have learnt english in school. Im seen as an failure by everyone family and friends. Give me an advice like you would give a stupid brother.
Doesn't Kafka say that evil is intrinsic, but it's source, as the genesis of guilt and the ultimate administrator of justice, is ever unapproachable, unconscious thus eternally unknowable? I think he says as much in The Trial. I don't think Kafka is ever trying to tell us anything about society. He is anti-polemical, as iconoclastic and apolitical a writer as ever was.
He sure is a very interesting casuistry case with a great talent to express his (somewhat pathologic) subjectiv understanding of world artisticaly.
But surelly I (and everybody) can have my own opinion about evil, its source etc. than they, depending on the nature and level of my own understanding. And I confess this unballanced adoration of depressive negativity by the speaking tubes of society gets on my nerves sometimes.
@@alena-qu9vj Ah, but we aren't talking about your, or my, or everyone's opinions, we are talking about Kafka's.
@@reaganwiles_art Oh, I thought that maybe we are talking about the possible generalization of Kafkas opinions and their accepting as general description of reality?
You cited him... "source, genesis etc. is EVER unapproachable and eternally unknowable" - this sounds pretty general and authoritative to me.
Hanah Arendt - assessment of Eichmann and banality of evil. Eichmann was diplomatically defined mediocre person with very strong "gang mentality" before Nazis he tried join freemasons and was denied. He was very efficient bureaucrat and was always awarded by party for his fanatical effort, he was not anti-Semite, he was efficient bureaucrat who followed all party orders, in his eyes state was legit institution. And law without order is dictatorship. His trial became some kind of gladiators joyful spectacle for killing (bringing justice) to biggest Semite hater.
I just had a conversation where someone demanded I have ZERO empathy for a likely amoral person. Her justification: justice.
I also think that there is something wrong with someone who can turn empathy on and off on command.
If there is no empathy for bad people, then cruel and unusual punishment would be seen as excellent.
someone who appears to turn empathy off likely had none to begin with and was faking it. someone who can fake empathy is a terrifying character, though I do not know if I would use the word evil.
victims deserve restorative justice but every person deserves empathy or they would be treated monstrously. the concept of "judge a society by how it treats it's criminals/vulnerable/lowest/worst" is a demand for empathy for all people.
It sounds like you would really like some of what Camus says in “The Rebel” - he talks a lot on this sort of theme
Did you just low-key explain the whole of 2020? 😂
Abortion is like the torture device. An unfaceable moral failing that continues.