Assertion: evil | /r/HasProperty | banal
Facets:
value: essentially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Instead of using the Eichmann case as a way forward to advance the tradition’s understanding of radical evil, Arendt decided that his evil was banal, that is, ‘thought-defying’.
text: The view that evil is essentially banal, presented by Hannah Arendt in her book Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963), is another version of the modern evasion of evil.