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Stevenson at age 7 Stevenson at age 14 Stevenson at age 30. In September 1857, when he was six years old, Stevenson went to Mr Henderson's School in India Street, Edinburgh, but because of poor health stayed only a few weeks and did not return until October 1859, aged eight. During his many absences, he was taught by private tutors.
A statue honouring Stevenson through a depiction of the two main characters from Kidnapped, Alan Breck Stewart and David Balfour, was unveiled by Sean Connery in 2004 in Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh. The location for the work, which is by Scottish sculptor Alexander Stoddart , is where, in the novel, the two friends part ways.
In 1887, Robert Louis Stevenson was advised by Dr. George Balfour (Stevenson’s uncle and doctor) to travel to the American Rocky Mountains for his health. [13] Stevenson, an invalid, suffered from a myriad of health conditions, and the prevailing thought at the time was that clean air was beneficial to victims of Tuberculosis, like Stevenson was presumed to be. [14]
The term depression was derived from the Latin verb deprimere, "to press down". [12] From the 14th century, "to depress" meant to subjugate or to bring down in spirits. It was used in 1665 in English author Richard Baker's Chronicle to refer to someone having "a great depression of spirit", and by English author Samuel Johnson in a similar ...
Robert Louis Stevenson in 1885. Stevenson had long been intrigued by the idea of how human personalities can reflect the interplay of good and evil.While still a teenager, he developed a script for a play about William Brodie, which he later reworked with the help of W. E. Henley and which was produced for the first time in 1882. [3]
In 1973, psychologist David Rosenhan published the Rosenhan experiment, a study with results that led to questions about the validity of psychiatric diagnoses. [74] Critics such as Robert Spitzer placed doubt on the validity and credibility of the study, but did concede that the consistency of psychiatric diagnoses needed improvement. [ 75 ]
In 1889 Stevenson also visited the leper colony on the island of MolokaŹ»i and met Father Damien there. Therefore, he had a first-hand experience from the fate of lepers. [ 6 ] Several times Stevenson uses the Hawaiian word Haole , which is the usual term for Caucasians , for example describing the last owner of the bottle.
Stevenson's work has been seen both as an elaboration upon A. J. Ayer's views and as a representation of one of "two broad types of ethical emotivism." [5] [6] An analytic philosopher, Stevenson suggested in his 1937 essay "The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms" that any ethical theory should explain three things: that intelligent disagreement can occur over moral questions, that moral terms ...