The question of evil. An itinerary between Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil
Camilla Boschi
In this article, we tried to understand the educational meaning that the concept of evil took in the existential experiences of two European philosophers of the twentieth century: Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) and Simone Weil (1909-1943). What they have in common is the critical reflective competence they showed in the political-ethical sphere, giving us interesting answers for the contemporary challenges. The most important thing, in our framework, is the conviction about the need to prepare for the evil, both as form of power that discriminates and oppresses, and as an insidious form of interpersonal relationships, overflowing in violence. The goal is to reread the thought of these philosophers in a pedagogical key, in order to seize the educational matters that can help us to face an inescapable fact of life, like the evil. The research approach refers to a qualitative methodology, aimed at identifying the connections between languages and phenomena. The epistemological background is hermeneutic and it refers
Keywords
Female, education, epistemology, hermeneutic, evil.