Essays on Simon Wiesenthal

Hamas movement has been perceived over the years as an Islamist extremist terrorist movement. This perception has been informed by the mission behind the formation of the movement which is in a nutshell, the obliteration of Israel and the ultimate establishment of a Palestinian state. Besides, the perception derives justification from the religious ideologies such as fundamentalism and radicalization often associated with Islamism and adopted by the Hamas in addition to several terrorist activities that have been carried out by the movement (Pettersen, 2009). However, this paper seeks to portray the Hamas as a movement in pursuit of self-determination ...

What do we think about when we hear the word “museum”? Actually, I cannot tell about all the people, but the first thing I think about is history. There are hundreds, thousands, millions of museums all over the world! I consider them to be places, that accumulate examples of some non-material conceptions like art, ethnology, history or science, and many other conceptions. All of them are really important for humanity. And most of them are very spiritual. Do you remember your school studying, when all the group was taken to a museum and told about its history, meaning ...

Philosophy of Forgiveness

1. Write one page on forgiveness. If you are Simon, do you forgive the Nazi? Do you think he was right to remain silent and let the soldier die in agony without forgiveness? Are there limits to forgiveness? Or is it limitless? What do you suspect Jesus would do? How about Nietzsche? For Simon Wiesenthal, “When history looks back, I want people to know the Nazis weren’t able to kill millions of people and get away with it” (Wiesenthal.com). Forgiveness is called by many names: benignity, condonation, exculpation, kindness, mercifulness and pardon. It is a willed change of ...