A questão do mal em Hannah Arendt

Abstract

This dissertation introduces the concept of "the banality of evil", from the perspective of political-philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975). Therefore, our goal in this paper is to analyze the elements of the phenomenon called banal evil phenomenon, from which was erected all the political question of the West, starting of Totalitarianism. We seek in our work, to reflect on the citizens’ lack of responsibility belonging to this totalitarian regimes society of the twentieth century. According to Arendt, is the claim of total domination of man, the core of which one can think of the evil in the totalitarian experience. To report and analyze the judgment of Otto Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi government official, Arendt, detain on the issue of the defendant’s liability in question. Eichmann followed orders, he was not a monster or a sadist and a pervert much less. Instead, he was a normal man. The harm caused by Eichmann and the Totalitarian Government, can not be punished or forgiven, It is necessary to understand what happened, that this evil does not happen again in the future. For Arendt, this logic of normal people committing crimes can not be punished or forgiven, can be changed. It takes people to think, reflect and take responsibility for their actions, but also, is necessary the restoration of political morality with love mundi - that is the desirethe world be preserved for future generations.