Abstract

RAMOS, SILVANA DE SOUZA. HANNAH ARENDT: NOT SUPPORT THE EVIL. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2017, vol.24, n.2, pp.71-82. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.v24n2p7-20.

The article intends to analyze the Arendtian reflections on evil, especially those found in works in which the author discusses the challenges for action and autonomous thinking under authoritarian political regimes. My intention is to present the consequences of the totalitarian experience for our understanding of moral responsibility, when a gap is opened between the past and the present, that is, when there is an abyss that separates us from tradition. According to Arendt, both, totalitarianism and the crimes committed under its aegis, have no precedent or name recorded in history or thought. In the light of such a condition, traditional thinking alone does not allow us to understand the meaning of events and actions in the modern world. Thus, with the help of Arendt, the article attempts to read both, events and actions, because they are the only support capable of guiding thought so that the modern experience of evil can be named.

Keywords : HANNAH ARENDT; TOTALITARIANISM; EVIL; ACTING; THINKING; RESPONSIBILITY.

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