Hannah Arendt: moral conscience and banality of human condition

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 self-criticism.