Relationship between evil and thinking activities

Franklin Hutabarat () and Reymand Hutabarat ()
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Franklin Hutabarat: Asia-Pacific International University
Reymand Hutabarat: Universitas Advent Indonesia, Jl. Kolonel Masturi 288, Parongpong, Bandung Barat, 40559

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2020, vol. 14, issue 1, 735-743

Abstract: Hannah Arendt argued that evil is all too frequently the product of normal citizens following the principles and prescriptions of a morally corrupt government. However, is it acceptable to blame the public organizing structure of the state or the bureaucracy as the source of rampant corruption? Through a documentary analysis based on the systematic examination and review of key sources published in various sources, it may conclude that corruption is a form of banal crime after Arendt's line of thought about the banality of crime, since the individuals involved are unable to think objectively and judge in a reflective and representative way. They blindly follow the orders of superiors and the old corrupt laws or the method of work.

Keywords: Crime; Evil; Corruption; Philosophy and Government (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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