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| Author(s): |
Thiago Dias da Silva
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2013-07-02 |
| Examining board members: |
Marilena de Souza Chaui;
Adriano Correia Silva;
Maria das Gracas de Souza
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| Advisor: | Marilena de Souza Chaui |
| Abstract | |
This work intends to discuss some of the elements concerning Socrates and Adolf Eichmann as described by Hannah Arendt. The apparently inappropriate rapprochement reveals its sense through Arendts idea of thinking, to which Socrates provides a model and the lack of which marks Eichmann. In order to let our point clear, we reconstruct Arendts criticism against modernity focusing on the idea of world alienation, present in modernity since its beginning, through the whole period of imperialism and reaching its peak in modern mass societies, of which Eichmann can be seen as a concrete model. On the other hand, we discuss Socrates as an example of thinker whose activity is still free from the hostility that, according to Arendt, our tradition of political philosophy established against politics. At last, we discuss the Arendts unfinished theory of judgment, activity closely related to thinking and that certainly would provide Eichmann a more consistent answer to the question: Why not join the SS? (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 10/14687-0 - Socrates, politics and philosophy in Hannah Arendt |
| Grantee: | Thiago Dias da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |