Word of the Week #2

1. Banality

2. The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics by Nina Rosenstand

Rosenstand, N. (2009). The Moral of the Story: An Introduction to Ethics. San Diego: McGrawHill.

3. The conclusion reached by Ardent and published in her book Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil is that the German public who had an inkling of what was going on and the Nazis who were actively engaged in the Endlosung, or the "Final Solution," were not evil in the sense that they (or most of them) deliberately sought to gain personal advantage by causing pain and suffering to others.

4. Adjective - devoid of freshness or originality (banal)

5. The banality of the speeches my managers give at meetings makes everyone fall asleep.