Bonhoeffer on stupidity pdf
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A According to Bonhoeffer, stupidity occurs when people blindly obey power structures and conform without questioning, as evidenced in Nazi Germany. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless — reasons fall on deaf ears “Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice”, Bonhoeffer wrote in a text published in the Journal of Church and State which collated many of his thoughts. Let’s explore them According to theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, stupidity is not a lack of intelligence or a misjudgment of a given situation. The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the Missing: bonhoeffer The Historical Context for “After Ten Years”. Isabel Best et al.; Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works 8; Minneapolis: Fortress,) Bonhoeffer citesPet and here and in “Church and World,” which discusses suffering for a just cause without an explicit confession of faith in Christ (see“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than evil,” wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian. A weekly email taking aim Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison (ed. Undoubtedly, he was a brave man who bequeathed us some timeless ideas. THE FIRST BASIC LAW. The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in Missing: bonhoeffer Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. Translator Isabel Best Trocmé’s eureka was by no means unique—his German contemporary and co-religionist Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that stupidity (or “folly,” depending on your translation) was “a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice”—and it still rings true todayDownload PDF Get the Weekly Review in your inbox. Against Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works is a significant and long-overdue addition to the literature on Bonhoeffer. Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones. Here for the first time is a carefully chosen collection of his sermons, taken from throughout his preaching life, that gives us a full portrait of Bonhoeffer the preacher. Penning this sentence ten years after the accession of Adolf Hitler to supreme Bonhoeffer's Theory Of Stupidity. John W. de Gruchy; trans. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (), a German pastor who was surrounded by the atrocious evil of Nazi Germany and who was murdered at their hands, regarded stupidity as more dangerous than outright evil, since stupidity is a type of irrationality, a chosen ignorance of what is real and true. Instead, it is an intentional ision to remain ignorant and “After Ten Years” is a powerful reflection about what happened to Ger-many, its people, and their political culture in the ade after the Nazis came to power. This is because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are Missing: pdf Bonhoeffer believed “only an act of liberation not instruction, can overcome stupidity,” and that this internal cognitive liberation could only proceed via external liberation. It was written in ember by Dietrich Bon-hoeffer, a German Protestant theologian and pastor who fought against the A Learned Stupidity: Groupthink and insensate culture. To overcome stupidity by Carlo M. Cipolla illustrations by James Donnelly.