Arendt examined and reflected on what happens in the past, how to condition and normalize the activity of rational people regardless of the specific situational context, as a natural condition for man committing evil deeds . The evil face portrayed by the senior SS officer at Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem is not necessarily that of a radically evil neurotic mind, but comes in the form of a banal and insignificant distortion of normality. Arendt argues that the banality of evil is being standardized as thoughtlessness in the unthinkable action of terrible human actions in a systematic and methodical way to explain the normalization of men's stupid acts. In the book Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt I argue that the banality of evil as negligence in relation to Eichmann's life as the past, the trial in the present and the death sentence pronounced by Israel as future results of the reckless action of the participation of all individuals . The process of humiliating, vicious and terrifying acts becomes routine in life and is accepted as the way things are done with the recklessness of the wrongdoer's conscience of past deeds. Arendt wrote that “their ability to distinguish good from evil… never had a crisis of conscience… they were neither heroes nor saints, and remain completely silent (Arendt page 104).” It usually begins with the division of labor to rationalize the unconscionable act of dehumanization and slaughter committed by a group of individuals. By maintaining the mechanism of death as collateral damage, intellectuals and other experts normalize the banality of evil for the general public with their inability to repudiate bad judgment as normalized. Arendt presents Eichmann's life as normalized... middle of paper... evil is mobilized by weakness, jealousy, greed or even the feeling of hatred in the goodness of the relationship between the problem of evil and the unthinking accusation of death (Arendt page 81). Looking to Eichmann to explain the roots of evil, Arendt found the absence of evil motivations. That evil was a superficial phenomenon in opposition to the faculty of thinking, in which we necessarily reach the root cause, can be understood from the resulting action of thoughtlessness. Eichmann and all individuals, due to the fact that they were unable to exercise the ability to think, could not find any understanding of their actions. The banality of evil as contempt for the lives of human individuals in the past, up to the present of the trial, and the prospect of the conclusions of the death sentence pronounced by Israel as a consequence of the reckless participation of all those who know how to say no.
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