Post by Brandon T. Taylor, D.Mgt

October 14th, 1906 Johanna "Hannah" Cohn Arendt was a German-American philosopher and political theorist born on this day in 1906. Her many books and articles on topics ranging from totalitarianism to epistemology have had a lasting influence on political theory. She is widely considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century. Her works cover a broad range of topics, but is perhaps best known for those dealing with the nature of power and evil, politics, direct democracy, authority, and totalitarianism. Arendt coined the phrase "banality of evil" when attempting to explain how ordinary people become actors in totalitiarian systems in her work "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil". "The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal." - Hannah Arendt Source: https://lnkd.in/gz6KMRX7