Betancourt's recollections of the events leading to her capture, and her commentary on Uribe's refusal to negotiate on behalf of the FARC hostages, help illuminate arguments being fought publicly in the present.
While the macroscopic analyses are illuminating, the arguments cannot be strong without a concrete case.
But — this is my own empirical observation — although experiments can illuminate philosophical arguments, they don't settle them.
There are the My Story works, deeply personal accounts in which the authors draw on their own lives to illuminate their arguments, often in self-conscious reference or emulation of notable activist voices of the past; and the Our Story versions, works of history and big-picture analysis, more academic in inspiration but no less ambitious in their ends.
Curiously, both historical arguments, illuminating as they are, oversimplify U.S. industrial achievements because they underestimate Taylor, overestimate pre-Taylor U.S. managers, or both.
His wildly creative slackers and opt-outers include Emily Dickinson, Andy Warhol and Orson Welles – examples so extreme as to be less than useless in terms of illuminating his central arguments about the possibilities of non-work.
In a closing argument illuminated by graphic videos and photos of the dead and wounded, Colonel Morse said Sergeant Bales had shown no mercy to the Afghan families, and deserved none from his military peers.
In fact, Kant did believe that the French Revolution was legitimate, and a look at his argument illuminates some of his complex terminology.
Mr. Birmingham's argument illuminates the plight of adjunct faculty, but it also demonstrates how universities make ends meet.
