This is a lesson on Hannah Arendt and her philosophy on where evil comes from and her concept of the “Banality of Evil”. This lesson is part of a series called ‘A History of Ideas’ which are lessons based on different famous philosophers/theologians and their theories.

Lesson Contents
Do Now Starter Activity
Video task from Ted ED on the Origins of Evil
Worksheet task using an extract from Eichmann in Jerusalem
Evaluation task on following morally wrong orders
End and send task on the Milgram experiment linking to Arendt

All lesson resources are embedded in the ppt at the bottom of the slide deck