Adolf Eichmann hinter Glas

The real banality of evil

10.32469/10355/5823 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

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Regine Lamboy

Keyword(s):

Hannah Arendt ◽

Formal Analysis ◽

University Of Missouri ◽

The Real ◽

Banality Of Evil ◽

Life Of The Mind ◽

Adolf Eichmann ◽

The Mind ◽

The University

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] When Hannah Arendt encountered Adolf Eichmann at his trial in Jerusalem she was struck by the fact that his most outstanding characteristic was his utter thoughtlessness. This raised the questins of whether there might be a connection between thinking and abstaining from evil doing, which she explored in her last book The Life of the Mind. If there is indeed such a connection, there may be a class of people who might be led to abstain from evil doing if they can be persuaded to engage in thinking. This dissertation examines Arendt's success in establishing such a connection. Overall, her project does not really succeed. Her overly formal analysis of thinking wavers between a highly abstract and obscure conceptualization of thinking and a more down to earth definition. Ultimately she winds up stripping thinking of all possible content. .

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Individual Responsibility in International Law for Crimes Against Humanity: The Attorney-General of the Government of Israel v. Adolf Eichmann (1961)

Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs, Volume 24 (2006) ◽

10.1163/9789004424968_004 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 43-58

Keyword(s):

International Law ◽

Attorney General ◽

Individual Responsibility ◽

Crimes Against Humanity ◽

Adolf Eichmann ◽

The Government

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The Legacy of Hannah Arendt’s Banality of Evil

Review of Human Rights ◽

10.35994/rhr.v3i1.83 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 65-86

Author(s):

Sabah Carrim

Keyword(s):

Hannah Arendt ◽

Problem Of Evil ◽

Banality Of Evil ◽

The Problem Of Evil ◽

Adolf Eichmann

Contemporary thinkers such as Philip Zimbardo, Alexander Hinton and Elizabeth Minnich recently coined the terms Banality of Heroism, Banality of Everyday Thought, and Banality of Goodness respectively (without these concepts being the linchpins of their theses). These terms can be retraced to one thinker in particular who is constantly referred to by them: Hannah Arendt. Arendt’s Banality of Evil, a key concept in her work, was devised to discuss the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. This paper seeks to critically analyze these “banalities,” and ascertain whether they have contributed meaningfully to the existing literature on the problem of evil.

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