无思的绝罚——论阿伦特“平庸的恶”

The Deepest Punishment without Thinking——On Arendt’s “the Banality of Evil”

汉娜·阿伦特是一位为自由和正义敢于冒天下之大不韪者,以思考德国战后审判的疑难为取向,为这个世界带来了出乎意料的东西——平庸的恶。为了弥平自我与社会的道德伤痕,阿伦特在古希腊找到了一个阿基米德点,站在这个立足点上,她把批判的眼光投向了思考活动,即奠基在我与自我进行的无声对话中。念及此,阿伦特指出,于个体而言,我们需要始终保持思考与判断;于社会而言,需要通过自由的行动和变革以捍卫公共空间。

Hannah Arendt,a person who dared to take the lead in the world out of freedom and justice.Based on the orientation of thinking difficulties in the post-war trials in Germany,she brought something unexpected to this world——the Banality of Evil.In order to heal the moral scars of the self and society,Arendt found an Archimedes point in ancient Greece.Standing on this foothold,she turned her critical eyes to the thinking activities,which were based on the silent dialogue with oneself.Thus,Arendt pointed out that for individual,we need to always keep thinking and judging;for the society,we need to defend public realm through free action and revolution.