ハンナ・アーレント

世界最大の悪は、ごく平凡な人間が行う悪です。そんな人には動機もなく、信念も邪心も悪魔的な意図もない。人間であることを拒絶した者なのです。そして、この現象を、私は”悪の凡庸さ”と名付けました。

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  1. shinichi Post author

    Hannah Arendt

    Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.

    The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
    The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.

    What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

    The Nazis were ‘convinced that evil-doing in our time has a morbid force of attraction,’ Bolshevik assurances inside and outside Russia that they do not recognize ordinary moral standards have become a mainstay of Communist propaganda, and experience has proven time and again that the propaganda value of evil deeds and general contempt for moral standards is independent of mere self-interest, supposedly the most powerful psychological factor in politics.

    Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass or to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing?

    A mixture of gullibility and cynicism had been an outstanding characteristic of mob mentality before it became an everyday phenomenon of masses. In an ever-changing, incomprehensible, world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything is possible and that nothing was true. The mixture in itself was remarkable enough, because it spelled the end of the illusion that gullibility was a weakness of unsuspecting primitive souls and cynism the vice of superior and refined minds. Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.

    Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.

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  2. shinichi Post author

    (sk)

    ハンナ・アーレント(Hannah Arendt)の文章とされていて、英語の文章も添えられている。

    The biggest vice in the world is the vice all ordinary man does. Such person is also without any motive, and the devil-like aim is also innocent faith. The person who refused that he’s man. And I called this phenomenon” mediocrity of the vice”.

    でもなぜか、その英語の文章は、日本人のサイトでしか見ることができない。

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