Hannah Arendt Flashcards
(3 cards)
1
Q
Banality of evil
A
- thoughtless evil
- most famous phrase
- thoughtless
- coined it when attending trail of Eichman
2
Q
Totalitarianism
A
- point was to create super flows people - reduce people to nothing
- thoughtlessness was part of it
- loneliness was a symptom of totalitarian regimes
- thought process, regimes
- once you think that people’s lives are not as important as yours
3
Q
Staleness
A
- modern malice
- refugees look at the world as an outsider
