Hannah Arendt: consciencia moral y banalidad de la condición humana

  • Lenis Castaño, John Fredy
Publication date
January 2009

Abstract

If we define moral consciousness as the capacity to self-criticize and debate within the framework of reciprocal demands, then totalitarianism appears as one of its major challengers, since it has become a form of banalization and annihilation of life. This paper’s aim is to analyze -using some of Hannah Arendt’s approaches- the possibilities of the necessary and constant birth of such consciousness in the middle of the tension of its alienation. To achieve this purpose, the following points shall be developed: nullification of moral consciousness, restoration of the faculty of judgement, connections to narrative discursiveness, and legal order and the reinvention of selfcriticism.Si se define la consciencia moral como capacidad de autocrít...

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