What is 'The Banality of Evil'? [Illustrated] 

And Solzhenitsyn continue with an excellent follow-up question: "And who want to cut his own heart?"

What subject are you studying? :)

That is the purpose of school and public education. To produce moral and critical citizens who exercise justice and judgement in their decisions.

The audio book is available on RU-vid and is fascinating.

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I always wonder... Why can't philosophy be scientific?🤔🤔🤔

Evil is either dependent on consensus, or a universal morality you say? I would disagree. The specifics of what constitutes evil need not metter. It can be defined semantically in relation to any set of moral standards.

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 If evil is a matter of standards it is not evil at all, just displeasure.

@@LNVACVAC everything is a matter of standards. I guess galilleo did get burned at the stake for this, so human inability to accept our own lack of import in nothing new.

And when they assume evil is always in the other, it justifies their own evil actions.

You didnt seem to understand. There are no "bad men". There are men, and some of them will in pursuit of what they consider virtue commit horrible atrocity.

@Mike Kane Nothing is more deadly than a devout idealist.

Oh, OTT, Twittr is a cult- look up cult symptoms, you're in for a shock. -people can't oppose the post-2016 left because the have conflated believing all the party lines with their sense of being a good person. In advance, not a conse'ative. I actually think this is why they've started saying "gasighting" rather than "arguing in bad faith" or "that statement was so dumb I feel like I lost brain cells"- you disproved them so hard they're now wondering if they're a bad person, that'd make me doubt reality. -there is a superstition among my people that naming calls, and if you use the wrong word saying something important then youtube will 'mysteriously' forget to share your post -the movement for... women born in men's bodies is completely false. The condition is actually brought about by extremely bad self esteem. They are simply human Otherkin. People go along with it because it sounds like it could be a real medical condition, and they don't like the consequences of not going along with it. -oh, and they're hypersensitive to being misjendered because it is a delusion. They don't like being called 'dude' because the thought associations remind them for a moment it's all a lie. -you, reading this, right now, believe in a lot of stupid shit. This is because nahzis are so goddamn stupid they are functionally strawmen, and they are the only people opposing what is functionally Tumbler spilling out into the real world. -because you are trying to argue against someone's identity you will never, ever win -you beat these people by talking past them

@@ineednochannelyoutube5384 For as much as I don't like Twittr, not true in the slightest. Altright are subhuman.

The quote, from what I’ve found, is as old as Khrushchev’s Destalinisation Campaign but was popularised by Rybakov’s ‘Children of the Arbat’ ; Rybakov of course would later admit that he had no personal evidence for the citation, but again - to my understanding - the phrase predates the publication of that text. You’re quite right though in that it is unclear whether or not Stalin said that comment. I did say “alleged” in the video, but perhaps it would be best in the future to err on the side of caution.

All hail the queen of bees.

Well, there were also references to Vlad the Impaler, Stalin and Hitler. True, Iago does not provide insight into actual humans (exception here maybe Shakespeare), but it does provide an abstraction for the concept of a malevolent agent, the fact that it's not an actual human may actually help people better understand that evil is not something reserved for a select few, but it's a character trait that we all share given certain conditions.

well if you want actual human let's just look at the source where Hannah Arendt got her term, search adolf eichmenn and watch his trial

I think for many people it is easier to identify absolute evil in fictional characters, as that is how they are portrayed to us in absolution. He did list some historical characters, but often there are more complexities to them that can muddy the water of the example in those cases.

Fiction, well some anyway, is how humanity records and expresses it's collective wisdom. Shakespeare is famous for his clever beautiful language, but mostly for how he captures human characteristics that give us a deeper understanding of how we work.

They may be fictional, but billions of people believe in Lucifer, for example. For them, he is real.

You very clearly dont understand english very well. The banality argument goes as such: -Metaphysical evil is motivated purely by malice. -Nothing is motivated purely by malice. -Metaphysical evil doesnt exist. -therefore the evil that exists must be banal. Normal, human, understandable, regular, not inherent.

You need to read Hannah Arendt's original text on the concept, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"