Philosophy Now Forum

Georgia Arkell reconsiders Arendt’s explosive report on the trial of Eichmann.

https://philosophynow.org/issues/158/Hannah_Arendt_and_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.