Eichmann
Origin
After Karl Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), "the architect of the ".
Full definition of Eichmann
Noun
Eichmann
(plural Eichmanns)- One who willingly participates in immoral or destructive actions without ethical qualms because the actions are acceptable to society.
- 1968, William Phillips, A sense of the presentHence, no special moral or political perversion is required to produce an Eichmann; it might be said that there are thousands of potential Eichmanns.
- 1992, Ian Shapiro, Political CriticismTheir arguments usually involve holding variants of the claim that the life of an Eichmann or a Stalin could not have been an integrated one...
- 1996, Lenore Langsdorf, Stephen H Watson, E Marya Bower, Phenomenology, interpretation, and community‎One can imagine an Eichmann who was capable of questioning the meaning of this or that defense for his actions that he might give...
- 2004, Alan P. Lightman, Daniel R Sarewitz, Christina Desser, Living with the Genie: essays on technology and the quest for human mastery‎Does the notion of a scientific gaze and the impersonality of method allow for an Eichmann in the scientist in all of us?
- 2005, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, The worlds of Herman Kahn: the intuitive science of thermonuclear war‎"I've been accused of playing an Eichmann-like role in supporting an evil policy."