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4 days ago · Stowaways pose a chronic difficulty to the shipping sector, with legal, operational, and ethical ramifications that must be thoroughly considered. By navigating the complexity of international law, strengthening security measures, and encouraging stakeholder collaboration, the shipping sector can endeavour to reduce the risks posed by stowaways while remaining committed to maritime safety ...
1 day ago · [1] Ethics, also referred to as moral philosophy, is the study of moral phenomena. It is one of the main branches of philosophy and investigates the nature of morality and the principles that govern the moral evaluation of conduct, character traits, and institutions.
1 day ago · Residential-scools denialism is a semantical construction that Sean Carleton appears to have co-invented with a fellow pseud, Daniel Heath Justice, who propose to define the device as “the rejection or misrepresentation of basic facts about residential schooling to undermine truth and reconciliation efforts . . . in ways that ultimately protect the status quo as well as guilty parties.”
5 days ago · secularism, a worldview or political principle that separates religion from other realms of human existence, often putting greater emphasis on nonreligious aspects of human life or, more specifically, separating religion from the political realm. A precise definition of secularism is difficult to formulate, even for scholars.
1 day ago · Defining meditation has proven difficult due to its wide range of practices across different traditions and cultures. In popular usage, "meditation" is often used imprecisely to designate practices aimed at training attention, calmness, or compassion. There is no universally accepted definition.
4 days ago · Arguments that fall short of the standards of correct reasoning often embody fallacies. Systems of logic are theoretical frameworks for assessing the correctness of arguments. Logic has been studied since antiquity. Early approaches include Aristotelian logic, Stoic logic, Nyaya, and Mohism.
5 days ago · Memory is the encoding, storage, and retrieval in the human mind of past experiences. The basic pattern of remembering involves attention to an event followed by representation of that event in the brain. Repeated attention, or practice, enables activities such as playing a musical instrument or recitation of a poem.
