Banality of Evil

Banality of Evil

The Banality of Evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work "Eichmann in Jerusalem." It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal.

See also

* Eichmann in Jerusalem
* Good Germans
* Stanford prison experiment
* Milgram Experiment
* Little Eichmanns

External links

* [http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/BanalityEvil_Herman.html An overview of the concept from www.thirdworldtraveler.com]
* [http://www.iep.utm.edu/a/arendt.htm The Banality of Evil at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]


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