Tag: Evil

• The Banality of Evil

  The philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75), exploring the idea of the ‘evil’ person as a ‘monster’, following the trial of Adolph Eichmann, described the “banality of evil”. She saw Eichmann as an unimaginative bureaucrat, a ‘self-less’ cog-in-a-machine, mindlessly carrying out his assigned duties without question. Getting railway wagons from A to B mattered, not whether they…

  calgacus83

  27th Nov 2022

  Consciousness, Current Affairs, History, Philosophy, Religion

  Auschwitz, Authenticity, Authority, Evil, Feeling, Holocaust, Philosophy, Socrates, Thinking