3 Enlightenment, science and empiricism. The Enlightenment's dedication to reason and knowledge did not come out of the blue. After all, scholars had for centuries been adding to humanity's stock of knowledge. The new emphasis, however, was on empirical knowledge: that is, knowledge or opinion grounded in experience.
Definition of immiseration. : the act of making miserable; especially : impoverishment the immiseration of the working class â C. R. Morris.
but because the regulations and standards, that do exist, are often ignored. The IMO MSC (Ziarati, 2006) clearly indicates the causes of many of the accidents at sea are due to deï¬ciencies in maritime education. and training (MET) of seafarers or disregard for current standards and regulations. Ziarati also reports (2007) that majority of accidents and incidents are related to collisions or groundings.