A banalidade do mal e a faculdade de pensar: política e ética nas reflexões de Hanna Arendt

Abstract

This work presents Hannah Arendt's about of evil, and its connection to the thinking and judging college, which gained new impetus at the Nazi trial of Adolf Eichmann. From the reflections on the problem of evil, Arendt turns to the activities of the spirit, raising questions about the thought, related to the phenomenon of evil. In Arendt's analysis, thought has as its activity the search for meanings and its purpose is communication with itself. Moving away from the orthodoxy of the Kantian texts, in his investigations of the judgment, Arendt understands in the aesthetic judgment of Kant the political condition of the judgment. In constant dialogue with Kant's work, Arendt is occupied with several concepts contained in the Critique of the College of Judgment, a work that considers Kant's political philosophy. Hannah Arendt reinterprets the college of judgment to demonstrate its political function, which serves citizens to distinguish right from wrong. The Kantian work allows us to understand the perception and the interpretive movement of Arendt. Through the analysis of the reflections of Hannah Arendt we seek to understand the author's perception about the functioning of the college of thinking and judging the political facts.