Perspectives: Lecture 2: Reflections On Transparency

• The Enlightenment Project: The Enlightenment Project is a term or concept that has been around since the 18th century and is discussed by many philosophers. It is an attempt to find reasoning of life and define humans through science, rejecting the idea of traditions such as religion.

• Structuralism: Structuralism is a concept which tries to understand the aspect of a human, such as experience or behaviour and attempts to try finding the core relationship between the human and object in order to create something that fits everyone's needs; a structure that is universal; 'one-size-fits-all'.

• Ahistorical: Not related to history or historical developments and is ignorant or lacking context and accuracy.

• Irreducible: Cannot be reduced, simplified or made more basic.

• Objective: Not being influenced by personal feelings or opinions.

• Universal: Relates to all collective groups or understood and applied to every collective group.

• Definitive: Is the finalised version of something that cannot be changed or developed/improved further, it is the final solution to a certain problem or situation.

• Postructuralism: Post-structuralism is recognises the issues of structuralism and rejecting the idea of 'one-size-fits-all'. Post-structuralism's purpose is to show individuality and throw away the idea of a certain thing can apply to everyone.

• The unreliable narrator: Is a character, who tells or narrates the story, but it is not completely accurate or true due to the characters mental state.