现代性视域下的“恶之平庸”——以《艾希曼在耶路撒冷》为出发点

A Study of“The Banality of Evil”From the Perspective of Modernity——With“Eichmann in Jerusalem”as the Starting Point

汉娜·阿伦特在《艾希曼在耶路撒冷》中提出“恶之平庸”的概念。在阿伦特看来,“恶”自身根于现代性,又因现代性而变得“平庸”。现代性中固然包含被阿伦特肯定的部分,但这种肯定也仅仅是部分的,并不能够掩盖现代性作为“恶之平庸”的根源这一事实。也正因此,现代人通过思考来抵抗现代性所伴生的“恶之平庸”不但是有必要的,更应是义务性的。

Hannah Arendt put forward the“banality of evil”in“Eichmann in Jerusalem:A Report on the Banality of Evil”.In Arendt’s view,evil itself is rooted in modernity,and it has become banality because of modernity.Although Arendt affirmed some of the advantages of modernity,this affirmation is only partial,and cannot conceal the fact that modernity is the root of the banality of evil.For this reason,it is not only necessary for us to resist the“banality of evil”associated with modernity through thinking but also obligatory.