Nostalgia, to some people, may seem foolhardy in a way. However, nostalgia is a completely and intensely private but social, collective emotion. It has continuing consequence and outgrowth for our lives as social actions. It leads people to hunt and explore remembrance of persons and places of our past in an effort to confer meaning of persons and places of present. In the ‘Poems of 1912-13’ Th...

Ancestor veneration need not entail a focus on biological ancestry, but inclusive Heathens are troubled that white supremacists attracted to Heathenry because of perceived connection between ancestor and pride in ancestry. The Canadian Raven’s Knoll identify themselves as inclusive, endeavor exclude racists from their groups events. Previous research has often distinguished folkish (often racis...

How are general informal reasoning skills acquired? Little research has been done on this topic. Two hypotheses dominate. According to the strong situated learning hypothesis, there are no general informal reasoning skills (only contextor domainspecific skills) and so nothing can be done to improve them. According to the practice hypothesis, general informal reasoning can be improved through in...

Abstract What should we think about ‘acts of conscience’, viz., cases where our personal judgments and public authority come into conflict such that principled resistance to the latter seems necessary? Philosophers mainly debate two issues: Accommodation Question , i.e., ‘When, if ever, accommodate claims conscience?’ Justification are justified in engaging acts conscience – why?’. By contrast,...

Physicians sometimes refuse to provide legally permitted medical services on the grounds that they cannot do so in good conscience. Such conscientious refusals are at least as old as the Hippocratic movement. Yet new events, such as the refusal by health care professionals to prescribe or dispense post-coital (‘‘emergency’’) contraception, have kindled new debates about what physicians are obli...