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Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s theory of stupidity: Why society allows foolishness to flourish

Theory of stupidity: Lessons from Bonhoeffer.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote some of the twentieth century’s most penetrating reflections on human behaviour while sitting in a Nazi prison cell. In 1943 he drafted an essay titled After Ten Years, now part of Letters and Papers from Prison, where he tried to understand how Germany, a country known for …

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