Abstract
Violence is applied systematically or symbolically in both individual and social life. The phenomenon of violence, which covers many different definitions, includes a physical situation applied to the individual as well as all kinds of harmful actions applied by the economic and political systems. It is possible to come across many different definitions of violence in the literature. The general feature of these definitions is that they have reached a generalization over the individual and social reasons that reveal violence. The common feature of these generalizations is that they focus on the harmful and negative aspects of violence. In the literature review on violence, it has been seen that many different aspects of the phenomenon of violence are discussed, but there is a gap on the arbitrariness of violence. This gap was filled by Arendt. According to Arendtê, who said that violence is in front of everyone's eyes and around, violence has a social and cultural history. Arendt, who made an analysis of violence through social events in history, developed a unique and original violence analysis from other social scientists in this context. The definition that Arendt developed over the concepts of power, power and force emphasizes the sociality of violence. In addition, it has been revealed that the violence is based on the arbitrariness of the powerless against the powerless for the expansion and systematization of the phenomenon. Therefore, the arbitrariness he especially emphasized in his definition differs from other social scientists. Violence, which is frequently used by governments to maintain their own authority, has also been accepted as one of the legitimate tools of the state in the definitions of the nation-state. In this context, the article focuses on the different emphases of violence, which was redefined on the axis of arbitrariness by Arendt, compared to other social scientists. The forms and limits of violence are limited by Arendt's interpretations and compared with the definitions of other social scientists.