SPEから見た『イェルサレムのアイヒマン』（メモ）

The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

Philip ZimbardoのThe Lucifer Effectで、アレントの『イェルサレムのアイヒマン』*1、特にそこでの「悪の凡庸性（the banality of evil）」の概念を、ミルグラム*2や自らの研究*3の先駆として位置づけている。曰く、

Arendt's phrase “the banality of evil” continues to resopnate because geocide has been unleashed around the world and torture and terrorism continue to be common features of our global landscape. We prefer to distance ourselves from such a fundamental truth, seeing the madness of evildoers and senseless violence of tyrants as dispositional characters within their personal makeup. Arendt's analysis was the first to deny this orientation by observing fluidity with which social forces can prompt normal people to perform hirrific acts. (pp.288-289)

Eichmann in Jerusalem (Penguin Classics)

*1:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060325/1143286174 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060413/1144896388 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20060925/1159211913 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070130/1170130210 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080630/1214763317 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090202/1233596155 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090219/1235062130 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20091109/1257786249 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100802/1280726806 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110801/1312219747 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110919/1316402409 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20120623/1340377615

*2:See also http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070320/1174400423 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20111106/1320550477 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20130425/1366864634

*3:See eg. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20111008/1318011185