Act Of Benevolence Research Articles

Blood donation and dermatology: What a dermatologist should know?

Blood donation is an act of benevolence that significantly improves lives and fosters better health outcomes globally. Certain skin diseases and medications make an individual temporarily or permanently ineligible to donate blood. This article aims to elucidate the relationship between skin diseases, medication, and blood donation deferral periods, empowering individuals to make informed decisions and contribute to this life-saving endeavour.

Danish citizenship: A gift you should not take for granted

For the hawks in the Danish debate on naturalization, Danish citizenship is not a human right or something that you can earn by living up to a specific set of criteria. Rather, it is something that members of parliament bestow on foreigners as a benevolent act, if the members are convinced that the foreigners are genuinely committed to Danish values and do not constitute a threat to democracy. In the hawks’ view, the members of parliament are sovereign and should be able to suspend all principles in the defense of democracy and liberal rights. Thereby the hawks repeat the dilemma of militant democracy: Does the defense of democracy turn democracy into its opposite?

THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: EXPLORING THE SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP

This research article examines the complex and mutually beneficial relationship between the Indian Constitution and corporate social responsibility. Constitution is the foundation of a democratic, equitable, and all-encompassing society. Additionally, CSR has evolved into a key tool for organisations to actively and constructively improve society beyond profit maximisation. Paper explains how these seemingly distinct entities converge and harmonise for communal welfare. With its values of justice, liberty, equality, and fraternity, the Constitution implicitly encourages business to create the nation. This article seeks to identify constitutional provisions that require corporations to align their operations with the sovereign entity's social and budgetary goals. Additionally, it examines landmark legal rulings that strengthened corporate constitutional concepts. The present study also examines the development of CSR in India, from a discretionary act of benevolence to a statutorily imposed set of obligations on corporations under the 2013 Companies Act. Paper highlights the symbiotic relationship between the Indian Constitution and CSR, highlighting the possibility of collaborative efforts to address urgent social, economic, and environmental issues. The above study illuminates the complex and reciprocal interaction at hand, providing valuable insights for policymakers, legal professionals, and businesses seeking to use this harmonious coalition to advance sustainable development in India.

India’s COVID vaccine gestures: from maitri to coloniality

ABSTRACT India’s Vaccine Maitri campaign, launched to signal its success in the fight against COVID-19, and as a benevolent act to save lives in the neighbouring countries, was neither. In this article, we argue that the campaign was an act of diplomacy by the Indian nation. Through a “postdevelopment” theoretical lens, we position Vaccine Maitri as a campaign that was designed to propagate India’s goals of developmental expansion in the subcontinent and beyond. Through our analysis of the discourse on Vaccine Maitri, we unpack this hidden development agenda.

THE NEED OF PEOPLES PARTICIPATION IN BEGGARY ELIMINATION

Even though beggary was considered an honorable deed in ancient India, it was still restricted to the domain of students and monks. Today, not only has beggary increased in its magnitude but also become a major concern for the society as well as the economy. Studies have shown that beggary is not an isolated phenomenon but an amalgamation of many background problems such as poverty, unemployment, family disintegration, diseases, physical inabilities etc. Moreover, the social and cultural values of the country have traditionally promoted beggary. Whether people beg due to various compulsions or have over time adapted it as a profession, what is important to note is that beggary may have been accepted and even respectable in Indian culture but today it is not. It is a vicious circle; idleness may be a cause of beggary but once it sets in, it leads to further disenchantment and lack of enthusiasm towards productive work. And naturally, crimes like theft, robbery, fraud, cheating, etc are associated with beggary. To liberate the person from this circle, it is important to make him or her independent and arrange for proper rehabilitation, eventually paving the way for such people to become a part of the mainstream production and social system. This will also pull society towards a level of equality and stability, and needless to say, this process will require the support of the entire society. To put it simply, it is noble and considered a religious act of benevolence if alms are given to a person who is helpless and unable to survive on his or her own, but if such a person is provided with stable arrangements of living and rehabilitation, it will be a greater act of charity and morality. This research paper provides a detail analysis of impact of people\'s participation in liberating beggars from the vicious circle of beggary.

Unwanted help: Accepting versus declining ageist behavior affects impressions of older adults.

What are the consequences for older adults who confront ageism and the perpetrators who engage in ageist behaviors? We compared young (n = 265), middle-aged (n = 338), and older adults' (n = 235) impressions of an older target and the perpetrator of an ageist action. Participants read a vignette about a pedestrian offering unwanted help to an older woman crossing the street. We manipulated the type of ageism (benevolent or hostile), the reaction of the older target (acceptance, moderate confrontation, or strong confrontation) and assessed perceptions of perpetrator appropriateness and how evaluations of warmth, competence, and overall impression of the target changed over time. The perpetrator's act of benevolent ageism was perceived to be more appropriate than hostile ageism, and middle-aged and older adult participants reported the benevolent act to be more acceptable than young participants. This finding supports an age stereotype assimilation account. For target perceptions, accepting a hostile ageist behavior led to lower warmth and competence ratings but accepting benevolent ageism reduced warmth but not competence evaluations. Age differences in target perceptions were predicted by social identity theory, in that older adults rated the older target more positively overall. Perceptions of targets who confronted varied by type of ageism and the intensity of the confrontation. When participants perceived the target's reaction to be disproportionate to the ageist act, the target was viewed more negatively overall. The findings suggest that ageism directed toward older adults is perceived to be normative by adults of all ages and that confrontations of ageist behavior result in negative perceptions of the older target. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Les enfants sont rois par Delphine de Vigan

Reviewed by: Les enfants sont rois par Delphine de Vigan Jennifer L. Holm Vigan, Delphine De. Les enfants sont rois. Gallimard, 2021. ISBN 978-2-0729-1581-9. Pp. 352. Critics of the digital age and globalization suggest that new technologies have led to a destabilization, even loss, of community and identity. Who are we if we can be anyone at any time? What do we choose to share of ourselves and with whom? To what communities do we belong if the whole world lies before us, accessible through a few clicks? However, for Mélanie Diore, the protagonist of Delphine de Vigan's eleventh novel, it is precisely because of this digital world that she finds meaning in her life. Mélanie is the mother of Kimmy and Sammy, stars of Happy Récrée, a YouTube channel through which Mélanie documents and shares every element of her children's lives. Each day, millions of followers enter the Diore home to watch Kimmy and Sammy as they indulge their mother's whims in the hopes of getting more "likes," more sponsorship deals, more followers, more fame. Every moment of the children's lives is an elaborately crafted made-for-tv moment. Except one. During a rare afternoon left to play hide-and-seek with the neighborhood children, six-year-old Kimmy goes missing. Police investigator Clara Roussel's work to understand the Diore family and find Kimmy plunges the reader into an exploration of the psychology behind Melanie's choices as she builds a digital following, choices that seem increasingly exploitive and potentially dangerous. Like other novels by Vigan, Les enfants sont rois is a slow-burning thriller exposing the troubled psychologies of the novel's characters—of families trying to negotiate relationships in a world in which everything is for sale and very little remains too intimate to share. Imagining the consequences of a life in which the boundary between public and private fades into oblivion, Les enfants sont rois is gripping and provocative, speaking to a moment in which our private lives are increasingly visible to the outside world, thanks to Zoom, TikTok, Instagram and other forms of social media. One of the novel's successes is that Kimmy's kidnapping, a common trope in thrillers, is not the element that drives the novel's suspense. The reader may, in fact, ask if Kimmy's kidnapping is an act of benevolence. Tension arises, rather, from the steady drip of knowledge about reality television, social media, influencers, and technology that accumulates as the novel progresses. The juxtaposition of Melanie's utter denial about the consequences of an anonymity-free life with her son's extreme paranoia, which consumes the last third of the novel, is highly disturbing. With a narrative arc spanning three decades, the narrator explores the short and long-term psychological, emotional, and social effects of living a camera-ready life. The narrator speaks of potential social media-induced psychological disorders that will trouble and haunt today's children in their adult lives, suggesting problems we may have to confront in the not-so-distant future. [End Page 275] Jennifer L. Holm University of Virginia's College, Wise Copyright © 2021 American Association of Teachers of French

Коммуникативно-прагматические особенности речевого акта благопожелания в татарской коммуникативной культуре

The purpose of this article is to study the communicative and pragmatic features of the speech act of benevolence in the Tatar communicative culture. The relevance of the research is because the study of the speech act of the Tatar people’s wishes allows us to rethink the communicative culture in the context of globalization and the dialogue of cultures, to identify the communicative and pragmatic features of the speech behavior of the Tatars. The author considers the conceptual theoretical basis of well wishing within the framework of the pragmatic theory of the speech act, when the illocutionary connection between the speaker and the addressee is determined by the established norms and traditions of a particular ethnic group. The article classifies the communicative-situational groups of speech expressions of benevolence as everyday and solemn, reveals their various communicative ISSN (print)2664-5157 Turkic Studies Journal 2021, Volume 3, Number 283Г.А. Набиуллина situations, which are illustrated by the variety of Tatar speech cliches, phraseological units and paroemias. Stable expressions of good wishes in the Tatar culture express sympathy, attention, and good relations to the interlocutor, thus they are based on the generally accepted rules of behavior and the traditional culture of the ethnic group. The ethno-cultural stereotypes of the Tatars communicative behavior are closely related to their mental and cultural values. The article also emphasizes that the main motives of benevolence in the Tatar speech act are the wish for health, material prosperity, good luck and kindness. The analysis of the speech formulas of benevolence in the system of Tatar communicative culture leads to the conclusion that the Tatars remain faithful and constant in observing folk customs and traditions.

Migration and the duty of hospitality: A genealogical sketch

Hospitality is usually defined as a benevolent act towards strangers. The concept has seen a revival during the ‘European migrant crisis’, as a humanitarian duty inspired by ancient traditions and natural empathy. This narrative is unsatisfying because it depoliticizes hospitality, homogenizes its historical meanings and neglects to take seriously the features of hospitality that are incompatible with modern politics. In order to redefine the concept of hospitality for contemporary issues, it is necessary to understand precisely what hospitality has meant throughout its different historical and philosophical instantiations and what kind of political problems it was supposed to address. This article offers a genealogy of the various political features of hospitality and distinguishes four sources of it: the ancient relation of dependence, the politics of ritualized hospitality, the medieval and Christian roots of hospitality as charity and its emergence as a natural right. Then, I argue for a reconstruction of the political meaning of hospitality for contemporary migration issues, based on practical mobilizations of the concept. I define modern hospitality as the collective obligation to relieve distress caused by crossing borders.

Mission in the Middle

Abstract Miguel Álvarez, a native of Honduras, explores how mission theology and the contextual implementation of Missio Dei is impacted by Latino hermeneutics. As a foundation, the article compares the North American and Latin American approaches to missiology. It shows how mission as an act of benevolence in the practice of faith differs from mission as a total commitment to the gospel in the execution of the Great Commission. Álvarez contends that because of their context of service, Latinos interpret God’s mission based on a paradigm that favors the poor and disenfranchised of society, and he argues that the ministry of Jesus Christ followed the same paradigm. This Latino perspective on mission helps to explain the current revival that is taken place in the Global South today.

“Green Gospel” As A Panacea For Environmental Challenge In Nigeria.

Environmental challenge is a global phenomenon which has generated discussions at different levels. The discussions focus on how humans can stop mistreating the ecosystem and create a sustainable environment. This discussion will continue as long as the attitude of people to the environment is still atrocious. The present state of the environment in Nigeria is of utmost concern. This gruesome attitude could be as a result of erroneous belief that human beings are to exercise dominion over the earth. Changing this erroneous belief requires continuous intentional enlightenment on environmental sustainability. A Yoruba adage says, bi ina o ba tan laso, eje kin tan ni eekanna (As long as there are lice on one’s clothe, there will be blood on the hands). Hence, Christians, by their God-given roles in Genesis 1:26, 28; 2:15, which is to “till the land, keep it, rule over it and fill it” are to champion this enlightenment by preaching “Green Gospel.” “Green gospel” is Gods’ act of benevolence to human beings with regards to the environment and human beings’ responsibilities as leader and manager of environment. “Green gospel” is aimed at raising environmental-friendly people. These are people who will preserve, conserve and care for the environment. Descriptive method is used in this paper. The paper looks at the views of different schools of thought and Christians on environment and concludes that a continuous preaching of “Green Gospel” by Christians will help in solving environmental challenge in Nigeria and the global world. “Green Gospel” should first be preached in the Church and Church members should in turn spread the Gospel to the “market place.”

Rights, Gifts, Repair

Rights, Gifts, Repair

La gestione finanziaria dell’acqua in ambito urbano tra IV e V secolo

Regarding the administration of water and especially its financial management in Late Antiquity, the documentation is rather sporadic. Nonetheless, the analysis of the sources, especially the legal ones, allow us to perceive the existence of a well-organized administration system although some details escape us. This administration had its own headquarters (statio), where the registers for the distribution of water were kept. It furthermore managed, through a specific financial department (ratio), all accounts related to water and a “chest” (arca) concerning the expenses and incomes of different nature. Although, this was only one of many rationes of the fiscus and probably also administered quite similarly as the various accounts concerning the food supply system in Rome and Constantinople, accounts often interconnected to each other and, from the 4th century onwards, fell under the supervision of the urban prefects. Besides, the fact that it is mainly within the constitutions of emperors that the protection of water and its uses were addressed, one can assume that there was a persistently present central authority, which tried, by special laws and interdictions, to preserve and guarantee the water supply to citizens. The imperial edicts do therefore reflect that the guarantee of water supply was an act of benevolence on the part of Emperors, towards the citizens. However, it should be emphasized that this was also true with regards to other essential aspects of civic life: guaranteed food supply, urban splendour, public order, facilities and welfare.

Microhistory Narratives, Alternative Epistemologies and Epistemic Credibility: A Comparative Study of Haifa Zangana's City of Widows and Leilah Nadir's Orange Trees of Baghdad

ABSTRACTLife writing has been read as a factual account of people's lives written from the very perspective of the subjects experiencing the world. Some critics consider women of colors' memoirs as narratives of victimhood published by western publishers due to the political economy behind publications. Some consider them as political accounts of refugee and immigrant lives with utilitarian purposes. They are also often taken to be critical micro-narratives of history attempting to challenge and fill in the gaps of the grand narrative of history. In this paper, I critique the mentioned trajectory of reading lived-experience and approach the genre of life writing from a decolonial and Post-positivist Realist perspective, looking at these narratives as theory-laden and epistemically salient. I argue that as much as testimony narratives might be affected by hegemonic discourses of power, such as imperialism and the Western dream of multiculturalism, there is still autonomy to lived experience as an epistemic body. I look at Iraqi women’s life writing narratives written with the purpose of archiving the contemporary history of Iraq post-invasion and occupation. Their historiographical story-telling ripens into a discourse of resistance challenging white saviour, imperialist and colonial narratives produced to justify the American invasion as a benevolent act.

Congruence Between Nurses' Caring Behaviors and Patients' Perceptions of Being Cared for During Disaster Responses

Caring has been defined as a benevolent act, human trait, and moral necessity. This paper explores the caring concept from perspectives of nurses and patients receiving care. A case is made for nurses' caring behaviors and patients' perceptions of how they ought to be cared to be congruent. Theorists' formulations and studies on nurse caring and disasters are reviewed. The caring moment goes beyond clinical settings; it can be experienced during natural disasters. A narrative of the author's caring during a disaster response is described, together with a generated disaster response model inspired by nurse theorists and philosophers' viewpoints on caring phenomena.

Benevolent discrimination: How HR managers reproduce ethnic discrimination with diversity initiative

This case study illustrates how the voluntary engagement of the HR personnel into diversity initiatives targeting migrants inscribe their actions into an act of benevolence that re-establishes a so...

Relationship between Debtor and Creditor from the Hadith Perspective(Hubungan Penghutang dan Pemiutang Menurut Perspektif Hadith)

Lending and borrowing are fundamental human activities. Islam generally permits such activities provided that they are based on genuine necessities and will not lead to unfavourable consequences. This article discusses the nature of lending and borrowing activities from the Islamic perspective and specifically in terms of the relationship between debtors and creditors. The main compilations of hadith (sunnan sittah) and related Sharah (commentaries) are referred to in a discussion and analysis of hadith pertaining to debt activities. The content analysis method, incorporating relevant hadiths and patterns of discussion, found that borrowers are obliged to repayment according to a predetermined contract. Additionally, lenders must remain considerate to the borrowers should the latter are unable to fulfil their obligation. In conclusion, a warm relationship between both parties should be established, as lending is a benevolent act which guarantees the lender a considerable reward in the afterlife.

Houses Divided: The Cultural Economy of Emancipation in the Civil War North

This essay examines late-antebellum portrayals of Irish servant women in popular culture and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society’s (PAS) wartime correspondence with northern employers eager to obtain access to southern freedpeople. In these sources, white northerners filtered their characterizations of women’s bodies and behaviors through ideologies of gender and race to create submissive and transgressive social types representing ideal and less-than-ideal workers. These declarations about workers, yoked to the northern argument that emancipation was both an act of benevolence and a period of necessary instruction for black southerners in the habits and practices of wage labor, propelled northern benevolent associations, armies, and the state to forge a transportation network that they hoped would ensure the flow of workers northward. This network proved short-lived, ultimately foundering on a lack of funding and employers’ and employees’ mutual disappointment with each other. And yet, because of their wartime cultural work, employers could pivot to a position of even greater strength over white and black workers in the political economy of wage labor.

Negative Feelings of Gratitude

Gratitude is a topic of great disagreement among philosophers. They dispute when it is owed, to whom it can be owed, what it amounts to. One point on which philosophers seem to agree, however, is that gratitude involves feelings, and that these feelings of gratitude are fundamentally positive. My goal in this paper is to argue against this claim. Gratitude does imply certain feelings, but there is no single positive feeling of gratitude, the way there may be a single positive feeling of joy or of pride. Instead, gratitude is (in part) an affective disposition—a disposition to have certain feelings in certain situations. Philosophers have overlooked this fact because they tend to consider cases of gratitude in a narrow context—namely, a context in which the benefactor’s sacrifice is minimal, and in which the benefactor generally fares well after performing an act of benevolence. When we consider gratitude outside this context, I will show, the feelings associated with gratitude can be negative, and indeed quite painful. This essay proceeds as follows. In Sect. 2, I define ‘‘gratitude’’ and ‘‘feeling,’’ and refine the question this essay aims to answer. In Sects. 3 and 4, I summarize what philosophers have taken feelings of gratitude to be, and argue against what I call the Consensus View on feelings of gratitude: that feelings of gratitude are invariably positive. In Sect. 5, I identify one normative implication my conclusion has for the question of when gratitude is warranted. In Sect. 6, I explore my

The American Living Donor Fund: Removing Financial Barriers to Benevolent Actions

The American Living Donor Fund: Removing Financial Barriers to Benevolent Actions