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Thoughtlessness - marcă a masificării socious-ului
Thoughtlessness as a feature of socious massification

Author(s): Alexandru-Daniel Costin
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Philosophy
Published by: Editura Universitatii LUCIAN BLAGA din Sibiu
Keywords: conscience; totalitarianism; alienation; violence; conspiracy; holes-of-oblivion;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper intends to identify reasonable answers for the three major questions that arose during Adolf Eichmann's trial starting from Hannah Arendt's interpretation – Was the defendant aware of the effects of his own actions? Was he able to judge the gravity of the outcomes? Did his conscience suffer any damage because of his utterly support during the extermination policy against Jews? We will approach the social, political and moral implications of the origin and trajectory of the Eichmann`s mediocrity in terms of his own outrageous deeds and we will provide an image of the way Arendt dismisses all the references towards a society ruled by insane leaders by means of portraying Eichmann as the exponential figure of her concept concerning the banality of evil. Furthermore, the paper shall present the active impact refusal has on the abolition of thinking, revealing to what extent the human being can prevent the evaporation of moral judgment through the diffusion of ideologies, which endeavour to destroy human plurality.

  • Issue Year: 40/2015
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 233-239
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Romanian