single, hateful person. It was an act of evil perpetrated by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people. Participation in the Holocaust by such a large body of people leads historians and those studying the Holocaust to ask whether man is inherently evil: did each person who participated in the Holocaust have a deep-seated and passionate hatred for the victims? Some of the scholarship on the Holocausts suggests that man is neither inherently good nor inherently evil, but a tabula rasa—a clean slate— influenced
Hannah Arendt was a famous political theorist of the twentieth century who dedicated her works to the nature of power and politics. One of her well-known articles for The New Yorker, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil raised a lot of controversy towards her among Jewish people. However, she denied all the falsehood accusation of defending Eichmann, and she wrote a book called Responsibility and Judgment, where she gave explanations to all her views and principles more clearly