A GENERAL LOOK AT HANNAH ARENDT'S COMMONNESS OF EVIL THROUGH EMOTIONAL AND RATIONAL ETHICS VIEWS
HANNAH AREDT'İN KÖTÜĞÜN SIRADANLIĞINA AKILCI VE DUYGUCU AHLAK ANLAYIŞLARI İLE GENEL BİR BAKIŞ

Author : Cengiz Mesut TOSUN -- Sevgül ALTUNTOP
Number of pages : 73-82

Abstract

What makes Hannah Arendt’s Commonness of Evil worth to investigate for us is that its success in a person’s attempt to resolve a world that he/she does not belong to with a language that is not her/his own. Arendt’s interpretation of Adolf Eichmann’s trial, which is considered as the century’s trial, as its being a philosophical but not a lawful trial, has caused intense reactions because of Hannah Arendt’s being a German citizen. The discomfort that the union of the words of evil and commonness has given has increased as what Arendt means with commonness become clear. Because Eichmann is very close to us, commons among the crowd, who, cannot show the attempt to be oneself with thoughts and words that one does not own. Common! The main subject of our study is whether the struggle to find oneself beyond being a human being is meaningful via “the reason”, in which the absence of one makes the other meaningless or “the emotion”. Kant tried to analyze this problem with “the reason, which makes our existence meaningful”, whereas Scheler with “the emotion, whose foundation is love and which causes a human being to gain one’s true humanity”.

Keywords

law, philosophy of law, commonness, reason, emotion

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