Hanna Arendt: the problem of responsibility for crimes against humanity in totalitarian regimes
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responsability, guilt, totalitarismAbstract
The purpose of this essay is to analyze the problem of responsibility from the perspective of Hannah Arendt taking into account the context of totalitarian regimes and their characteristics. The present interpretation holds that the Jewish-German thinker considers that the objective of the design of the bureaucracy of the Nazi totalitarian regime is suppress the responsibility of who participated in the commission of crimes against humanity in the concentration and extermination camps, involving in these to his victims. To approach the problem of responsibility, the arendtian distinction is presented between the notions of guilt, personal responsibility and political responsibility, in order to differentiate the degrees of responsibility in general.
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