Responsibility and Judgment：And Judgment

ResponsibilityandJudgmentgatherstogetherunpublishedwritingsfromthelastdecadeofArendt’slife,wheresheaddressesfundamentalquestionsandconcernsaboutthenatureofevilandthemakingofmoralchoices.Attheheartofthebookisaprofoundethicalinvestigation,“SomeQuestionsofMoralPhilosophy,”inwhichArendtconfrontstheinadequacyoftraditionalmoral“truths”asstandardstojudgewhatwearecapableofdoingandexaminesanewourabilitytodistinguishgoodfromevilandrightfromwrong.WealsoseehowArendtcomestounderstandthatalongsidetheradicalevilshehadaddressedinearlieranalysesoftotalitarianism,thereexistsamoreperniciousevil,independentofpoliticalideology,whoseexecutionislimitlesswhentheperpetratorfeelsnoremorseandcanforgethisactsassoonastheyarecommitted.ResponsibilityandJudgmentisanindispensableinvestigationintosomeofthemosttroublingandimportantissuesofourtime.