Hannah Arendt Quote
Hannah Arendt (from “Eichmann in Jerusalem”):
“The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more
... See more“There is immense silent agony in the world, and the task of man is to be a voice for the plundered poor, to prevent the desecration of the soul and the violation of our dream of honesty. The more deeply immersed I became in the thinking of the prophets, the more powerfully it became clear to me what the lives of the Prophets sought to convey: that... See more
The Wisdom Letter #280
La « banalité du mal » (en anglais : banality of evil , en allemand : Banalität des Bösen ) est un concept philosophique développé par Hannah Arendt en 1963, dans son ouvrage Eichmann à Jérusalem : Rapport sur la banalité du mal . Lors de son procès, Adolf Eichmann, qu’on pense être une bête furieuse et qui devrait laisser une forte impression,
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