In the pages of Arendt, the result of lessons held by Arendt in the United States in the mid-sixties, there is the beginning of that reflection on the "banality of evil" complementary, but not opposed, to that on the "radicality of evil", developed in the years of the writing of "The origins of totalitarianism". Conceptual Index:
comprehensive propositions;
consciousness;
the obligation;
Decision reliability;
human being and person;
the possibility of doing evil.

- Spaemann: Three lessons on human dignity:
Uniqueness of the human being. The dignity of a person. The "dignity" of a death. Modernity and its disagreement with religious and moral tradition. Dignity as a non-biological quality of man, but as a foundation. Love as the foundation of knowledge.