Hannah Arendt: 2 ideas worth knowing

2 ideas from Hannah Arendt, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.

Arendt watched a Nazi bureaucrat and found no monster, just a clerk
Covering Adolf Eichmann's 1961 trial, Arendt argued the horror wasn't demonic hatred but thoughtless, careerist conformity — a man who stopped thinking and simply did his job well.…
— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
Arendt split the active life into three things we keep confusing
In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt argued humans do three distinct things we lump together as "work": labor (endless, tied to survival), work (making durable objects that outlas…
— Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition

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