"no more is required"?

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Does "no more is required" refer to " no more (of humanity) is needed"?

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nder conditions of terror most people will comply but some people will not, just as the lesson of the countries to which the Final Solution was proposed is that "it could happen" in most places but it did not happen everywhere. Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#The_banality_of_evil

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@oristarA,

Ori, don't exactly understand the q. However, no more is required...for this planet to remain....

Hope somebody else comes along with a more definitive response

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@oristarA,

Arendt is referring to moral choice in that excerpt.

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you might find it easier to do these translations if you read the source documents and didn't try to translate excerpts out of their proper context.

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@oristarA,

No, need doesn't equate to requirement, necessarily.

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@ehBeth,

ehBeth wrote:

Arendt is referring to moral choice in that excerpt.

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you might find it easier to do these translations if you read the source documents and didn't try to translate excerpts out of their proper context.

Not my translation.
Did you mean "no more moral choice is required"?
If so, "that most people will comply terror is acceptable" is Arendt's intentioin?

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

no more is required

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it is understood as "nothing more than having moral choice is required"

<than having moral choice> is implied by the context provided by reading the preceding material

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@oristarA,

are you helping someone else do a translation or reading for knowledge?

if you want to understand Hannah Arendt, I recommend reading her work directly, instead of trying to understand it by way of Wikipedia excerpts

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@oristarA,

Quote:

Humanly speaking, no more is required, and no more can reasonably be asked, for this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation.

Turn the sentence round, and simplify it:

For this planet to remain a place fit for human habitation, no more (than that) is required.

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@McTag,

Excellent!

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