Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.
https://philosophynow.org/issues/158/Hannah_Arendt_and_the_Banality_of_Evil
Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil
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Re: Hannah Arendt & the Banality of Evil
I don't disagree with the analysis and conclusions of Arendt. In the case of a large bureaucracy that is devoted to a task, say genocide, individual cogs in that bureaucracy do not have to be rabid believers in the task, they can just be bureaucrats.