How to pronounce“bonhoeffer”in English

Bonhoeffer has got this quotation where he says that evil contains within it the germ of its own subversion.

So Bonhoeffer is careful to say that those three things are not stupidity.

Now again um Bonhoeffer says that stupidity can be defined by three different elements.

stupid in the Bonhoeffer sense?

If we agree with Bonhoeffer, if we even partially agree with Bonhoeffer that stupidity is a greater danger to society than evil and we agree with Aristotle that a mafia is the greatest threat to

Douglas to Dietrich Bonhoeffer to Abraham Lincoln get more resilient and a little bit quicker about stepping into the fear and a little more brave about

And what Rali is saying is what Bonhoeffer was saying as well that when we conform to some kind of group think we are surrendering our own ability to do critical thinking

So that's the second example of stupidity according to Bonhoeffer. And this is what Bonhoeffer saw from his prison cell in 1943.

But the next step is to appreciate what Bonhoeffer was talking about what real stupidity means.

When the war broke out, Bonhoeffer was part of the anti-Nazi intelligence where he would feed information to the Allies and to the resistance movements all over Europe and in Germany.

And what Musul and Bonhoeffer were writing about and what they were talking about was of course Nazism.

When you're debating somebody who is stupid in the sense of Bonhoeffer, they don't question their own beliefs and they are unwilling to accept any contrary position to what they actually believe.

So Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a 20th century philosopher and

And that's an example of what Bonhoeffer would call stupidity.

So the reason why Bonhoeffer says that stupidity is a greater problem than evil is because with evil you have a known problem.

So that's why stupidity is such a harder thing to find and it's why Bonhoeffer thinks is actually worse than evil because it's part of the system and it drags down institutions and it

Now, Bonhoeffer says that isn't the same as stupidity.

Intelligence according to Bonhoeffer is measured by the ability to think critically.

Now what we're seeing with Bonhoeffer's argument is almost the inverse of the Peter principle. What Bonhoeffer is saying is that to become elected, to become

But what Bonhoeffer, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle are all saying is that those who admit they don't know something are actually the wisest of all.

something that you read about in Simone de Beauvoir or when you're reading about something that Bonhoeffer says or when you're reading at something that Descartes says,

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Abraham Lincoln famous african-american abolitionist Frederick Douglass a very important resistor to Hitler in Nazi Germany Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the

And it's a brilliant quotation and it's a brilliant visual because it is so true as to what it feels like when you are debating somebody who is stupid in the sense of Bonhoeffer.

And what Bonhoeffer is saying about the stupid person, the pigeon on the chessboard, is that they don't even

And Bonhoeffer is saying that when you get power, you are expected to tow the line in this sense.

problem because what this does is it normalizes lying and it normalizes a disregard for the truth and when that happens you have conformist and according to Bonhoeffer you have a world which

And of course what Bonhoeffer is saying, what Aristotle, what Plato and what all the philosophers are saying is that we should also

So, what can we all do to reverse what Bonhoeffer was seeing in society and

For Bonhoeffer that is the greater

our sixteenth president Abraham Lincoln; the abolitionist and civil liberties crusader Frederick Douglass; the resistor to Nazi Germany’s evils Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor; and the

Now, this is a great example of what Bonhoeffer talks