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plural Eichmanns
One who willingly participates in immoral or destructive actions without ethical qualms because the actions are acceptable to society. quotations examples
Hence, no special moral or political perversion is required to produce an Eichmann; it might be said that there are thousands of potential Eichmanns.
1968, William Phillips, A sense of the present
Their arguments usually involve holding variants of the claim that the life of an Eichmann or a Stalin could not have been an integrated one...
1992, Ian Shapiro, Political Criticism
One can imagine an Eichmann who was capable of questioning the meaning of this or that defense for his actions that he might give...
1996, Lenore Langsdorf, Stephen H Watson, E Marya Bower, Phenomenology, interpretation, and community
Does the notion of a scientific gaze and the impersonality of method allow for an Eichmann in the scientist in all of us?
2004, Alan P. Lightman, Daniel R Sarewitz, Christina Desser, Living with the Genie: essays on technology and the quest for human mastery
"I've been accused of playing an Eichmann-like role in supporting an evil policy."
2005, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The worlds of Herman Kahn: the intuitive science of thermonuclear war