The Banality of Evil is a phrase coined in 1963 by Hannah Arendt in her work Eichmann in Jerusalem. Year 1963 ( MCMLXIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil is a book written by political theorist Hannah Arendt, originally published in 1963 It describes the thesis that the great evils in history generally, and the Holocaust in particular, were not executed by fanatics or sociopaths but rather by ordinary people who accepted the premises of their state and therefore participated with the view that their actions were normal. Evil, in many cultures is used to describe acts or thoughts which are contrary to some particular religion History is the study of the past particularly the written record Those who study history as a Profession are called Historians Etymology The Holocaust (from the Greek el ''ὁλόκαυστον'' (el-Latn holókauston holos, "completely" and kaustos, "burnt" also known as Antisocial personality disorder ( APD) is a Mental disorder.It is defined by the American Psychiatric Association 's Diagnostic and Statistical

See also

• Eichmann in Jerusalem
• Good Germans
• Stanford prison experiment
• Milgram Experiment
• Little Eichmanns

External links

• An overview of the concept from www.thirdworldtraveler.com
• The Banality of Evil at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Eichmann in Jerusalem A Report on the Banality of Evil is a book written by political theorist Hannah Arendt, originally published in 1963 " Good Germans " is a phrase that originally referred to citizens of Nazi Germany who after Germany’s defeat in World War II, claimed not to have supported The Stanford prison experiment was a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard The Milgram experiment was a seminal series of Social psychology Experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram Little Eichmanns is a phrase coined by anarcho-primitivist John Zerzan to describe the complicity of those who participate in destructive and immoral systems

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