The Philosophy of the Good and the Evil in the Teachings of Leo Tolstoy and Hannah Arendt

Svetlana Klimova

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Abstract: The main subject of this article is devited of analyses a problem of Good and Evil in the teaching of Leo Tolstoy and Hannah Arendt. each in his epoch and by a similar way, got to the back of contradictions between “reasonableness”, “morality” and a human behavior in the state and society though they approached them from the opposing points of view. The approach of Tolstoy was Christian-ethical while that of Arendt was philosophic-political. Their congeniality is attributed to the fact that the ethics of Tolstoy and the policy of Arendt are built on a common theoretical ground, i.e. the philosophical anthropology of Kant. In the “man-state” opposition, Tolstoy revealed the ethical prerequisites to creation of the totalitarian ideology, and Arendt showed up the historical, political and inhuman essence of the totalitarianism phenomenon as such.

Keywords: Good; Evil; radical and banality evil; a philosophical anthropology of Kant; consciousness; the mass society and the mass man; “Eichmann as man” and “Eichmann as Nazi official; ” independent thinking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2017
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Published in WP BRP Series: Humanities / HUM, August 2017, pages-23

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