Outram Essays

According to Arendt, the accused was not a devil, but more of a "buffoon". Arendt saw Adolf Eichmann as a normal hard-working bureaucrat without "devilish-demonic depth". Obedience, a sense of duty and career thinking seemed to have motivated him much more than ideological fanaticism or low motives. He committed monstrous crimes without being a monster. “Arendt saw in Eichmann a disturbingly average man of middling intelligence. She didn’t see Attila the Hun in him but something she described as

The European people throughout history had to face a lot of hardships such as wars, famines, diseases and religious conflicts. The continent of Europe had experience a lot of darkness in its history, but news ideas and concept will be created during the Enlightenment period. During this time period, new ideas, ways of thinking and knowledge that brought positive change to the continent. The Enlightenment period created great individuals such as Issac Newton, Denis Diderot, Thomas Jefferson and many

writers or journalist of the time used any means ( journals, newpapers…) and managed to have them printed in Amsterdam or Switzerland, and then bring them in France for readers. Because despite the salons, reading was at the time, as argued by Dorinda Outram “ Books and pamphlets could be easily sold in large numbers, were relatively portable, and could cross language, cultural and geographical boundaries more easily”. The perfect means for transmission of ideas,

The use of such Salons, books or literary journals was not just to help the propagation of the Enlightenment’s ideal and raise more awareness to people’s state of being. They became embodied practices of it. Kant’s view on the Enlightenment was that it would be brought by mankind itself only if they used reason as freely as possible. This is what Haberman called “Public sphere” and defined by Kant as “(…) enjoys in this public use of reason an unrestricted freedom to use his own rational capacities

Age of enlightenment vs life today Introduction There are various eras that have been in existence since the beginning of the world. One of these famous eras is the age of enlightenment also referred to as the age of reason or simply the enlightenment. Age of enlightenment refers to the time that guided intellectual movements known as The Enlightenment. We can say that in the world today, there still exists some form of enlightenment that is going on. The enlightenment today comes from a new practices

conservativeness towards the catholic church (Zafirovski, 2011). In addition, “philosophes” were existed and proposed some new idea in challenging the corrupted political system and the awareness of people’s liberty and human rights rise at that time (Outram, 2006). The philosophes believed that the political and ethical theories could bring the society to be emancipated. John Locke, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill proposed a series of new ideas which were influential and lead to the improvement of

Postmodernism is a term that we have come to known since the late twentieth century. Derived from the Latin words “post” (after) and “modo” (just now), postmodernism is a widely discussed phase of contemporary history today. The early appearances of the word go back to a surprisingly long way. American postmodernist Ihab Hassan indicated in his book, The Postmodern Turn (1987), that “postmodernism” could be traced back to the Spanish word “postmodernismo” in Antología de la poesí española e hispanoamericano

participants and contributors in their care because of their knowledge and experiences regarding their condition, which applies regardless of age and healthcare setting (Institute for Patient- and Family- Centred Care, as cited in Levett-Jones, Gilligan, Outram & Horton, 2014). Furthermore, patient-centred care places value on "empathy, dignity, autonomy, respect, choice, transparency, and a desire to help individuals lead the life they want" (Levett-Jones et al., 2014, p. 15). Morever, the second standard

Daniel Defoe 's A Journal of a Plague Year is not simply a narrative about the etymology and effects of the Great Plague of 1665, rather, this narrative is concerned with how the plague relates to and affects humanity and our greater understanding of the world. This concern ultimately reflects the growing ideas of the Enlightenment in the 18th century. To Daniel Gordon, it is only within the Enlightenment 's modern city that the plague can become a "disaster of the highest magnitude," because it

The Enlightenment was a new concept that emerged in Europe during the late 18th century. The enlightenment movement shed some light on matters that had become debateable during the century, and that certain individuals had come to question with reasoning. The Enlightenment was a movement that ultimately had been developed by the likes of European philosophers and the ideas had spread throughout much of Europe. However, more recently, historians such as Sebastian Conrad, have made claims that the

Introduction about Philips Pullman’s life and works: Philip Pullman is one of the most famous writers of the Norwich, England. He was born on19th of October 1946 in the place known as Norwich. He was the son of Audrey Avelyn Pullman Alfred Outram Pullman. His father was basically in the air force so he used to travel a lot. He travels to many countries and when he was in Australia, he explores his love with the writing. After completing his studies, he joined the most famous college of that time

CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION The greatest progress to date in the use of computers for the clinical analysis of physiological data has occurred in the field of cardiology. There are several reasons for this; first of all, electrocardiogram (ECG) potentials are relatively easy to measure; secondly, the ECG is an extremely useful indicator for both screening and diagnosis. In addition, certain abnormalities of the ECG are quite well defined and can be readily identified. The ECG signal provides the