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History of fair trade On the producer end, the Max Havelaar initiative offered disadvantaged producers following various social and environmental standards a fair price, significantly above the market price, for their crop. The coffee, originating from the UCIRI cooperative in Mexico, was imported by Dutch company Van ... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
History of fair trade Fairtrade labelling also allowed consumers and distributors alike to track the origin of the goods to confirm that the products were really benefiting the farmers at the end of the supply chain. The initiative was a great success and was replicated in several other markets: in the ensuing years, s... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
History of fair trade Initially, the Max Havelaars and the Transfairs each had their own Fairtrade standards, product committees and monitoring systems. In 1994, a process of convergence among the labelling organizations – or "LIs" (for "Labelling Initiatives") – started with the establishment of a TransMax working gro... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
History of fair trade The goals of the launch were to improve the visibility of the mark on supermarket shelves, facilitate cross border trade and simplify export procedures for both producers and exporters. The Fairtrade Certification Mark harmonization process is still under way – today, all but two labelling initiat... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
History of fair trade In January 2004, FLO was divided into two independent organizations: FLO International, which sets Fairtrade standards and provides producer business support, and FLO-CERT, which inspects and certifies producer organizations. The aim of the split was to ensure the impartiality, the independence of... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
History of fair trade In an effort to complement the Fairtrade certification system and allow for example handcraft producers to also sell their products outside worldshops, the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), formerly the International Fair Trade Association (founded 1989), launched a new Mark to identify fair t... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
History of fair trade The FTO Mark gave for the first time Fair Trade Organizations (including handcrafts producers) definable recognition amongst consumers, existing and new business partners, governments and donors. Global fair trade sales have soared over the past decade. The increase has been particularly spectacul... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413804 | History of fair trade |
Town Police Clauses Act 1847 The is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (10 & 11 Vict c. 89). The statute remains in force and is frequently used by local councils to close roads to allow public events such as processions or street parties to take place. The Act is also used to regulate the local hackney car... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8420007 | Town Police Clauses Act 1847 |
Town Police Clauses Act 1847 In 1847, the House of Commons Select Committee on Private Bills presented a report. In 1842 to 1843, the average number of private bills passed was 161, rising to an average of 347 from 1845 to 1846. By 21 July 1847, the House of Commons, 490 petitions for private bills were received that y... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8420007 | Town Police Clauses Act 1847 |
Town Police Clauses Act 1847 The select committee wrote: To provide uniformity in legislation in different geographical areas, to reduce the number of private bills about public functions, and to reduce expense, the select committee proposed eight public acts, each dealing with a different topic: The police legislation... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8420007 | Town Police Clauses Act 1847 |
Town Police Clauses Act 1847 A significant role is the licensing of hackney carriages. It also prohibits the wanton furious driving of a horse and carriage in the street. A role of the Act is to regulate peoples' behaviour. It remains an offence to be disorderly or insulting in a police station. Until 2003, the Act was... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8420007 | Town Police Clauses Act 1847 |
Perajurit Tanah Air or Inilah Barisan Kita is a patriotic Malaysian national song. Composed by Saiful Bahari. The song is remarkable for its impartial, egalitarian lyrics, which extols the soldiers' love and duty to the motherland without explicit reference to any particular race or religion. "Perajurit Tanah Air" foun... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8420435 | Perajurit Tanah Air |
Professional courtesy generally refers to the etiquette extended between members of the same profession. The concept of professional courtesy is believed to have originated within the ancient practice of medicine whereby physicians provided services to other physicians without charge. However, the philosophy does not n... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8428553 | Professional courtesy |
Professional courtesy Some other well known groups that have some form of professional courtesy are attorneys, performing artists, and law enforcement officers. The phrase may also describe the ethical conduct of lawyers towards each other. In 1803, Thomas Percival wrote a classic essay on medical ethics that endorsed ... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8428553 | Professional courtesy |
Professional courtesy Among physicians it has been historically traditional to provide medical care at no or reduced cost to physician colleagues and their immediate family members. The original purpose of this practice was to discourage physicians from treating themselves and members of their own family. The custom da... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8428553 | Professional courtesy |
Professional courtesy In 1994, the American Medical Association issued a Code of Medical Ethics Opinion advising that free-of-charge and reduced rate services were not an ethical requirement, and that physicians should use their own judgment when deciding to extend such professional courtesy. The term has been used to ... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8428553 | Professional courtesy |
Professional courtesy Even serious offenses such as drunk driving are subject to professional courtesy discretion, and federal law assists in the process by exempting police officers and firefighters from a federal law that requires truck drivers to be blood-tested after an accident. There is a website offering law enf... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8428553 | Professional courtesy |
Professional courtesy The vendor of this card is explicit about the intention behind these cards. Until the 1960s, it was customary for theater management to admit members of Actors Equity and other members of the profession to Broadway shows for free. This practice continues in the Off-Off-Broadway world, where member... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8428553 | Professional courtesy |
Modalities (sociology) Modalities are fundamental to understanding the concept behind Structuration. According to Anthony Giddens, modalities explain the properties of the Structure. The structure is said to have both structural and individual qualities. Giddens refers to these structural modalities as 'rules' and 'res... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8433573 | Modalities (sociology) |
Modalities (sociology) Norms, however, have changed in the past and are under constant manipulation by the society through the use of structural 'resources'. Civil laws can and have been overturned or rewritten in the past. Laws that have limited human liberties, can be overturned as there exists 'resources', e.g. lawy... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8433573 | Modalities (sociology) |
Robot ethics Robot ethics, sometimes known by the short expression "roboethics", concerns ethical problems that occur with robots, such as whether robots pose a threat to humans in the long or short run, whether some "uses" of robots are problematic (such as in healthcare or as 'killer robots' in war), and how robots s... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics Researchers from diverse areas are beginning to tackle ethical questions about creating robotic technology and implementing it in societies, in a way that will still ensure the safety of the human race. While the issues are as old as the word "robot", serious academic discussions started around the year 20... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics Some of the central discussion of ethics in relation to the treatment of non-human or non-biological things and their potential "spirituality". Another central topic, has to do with the development of machinery and eventually robots, this philosophy was also applied to robotics. One of the first publicatio... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics An important event that propelled the concern of roboethics was the First International Symposium on Roboethics in 2004 by the collaborative effort of Scuola di Robotica, the Arts Lab of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, and the Theological Institute of Pontificia Accademia della Santa Croce, Rome. "After ... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics Further events in the field are announced by the euRobotics ELS topics group, and by RoboHub: Computer scientist Virginia Dignum noted in a March 2018 issue of "Ethics and Information Technology" that the general societal attitude toward artificial intelligence (AI) has, in the modern era, shifted away fro... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics One film that could be argued to be ingrained in pop culture that depicts the dystopian future use of robotic AI is "The Matrix", depicting a future where humans and conscious sentient AI struggle for control of planet earth resulting in the destruction of most of the human race. An animated film based on ... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics One such example is , which has a humanoid android, named Data, as one of its main characters. For the most part, he is trusted with mission critical work, but his ability to fit in with the other living beings is often in question. More recently, the movie Ex Machina and TV show Westworld have taken taken... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics Although not a part of roboethics "per se", the ethical behavior of robots themselves has also been a joining issue in roboethics in popular culture. The "Terminator" series focuses on robots run by an conscious AI program with no restraint on the termination of its enemies. This series too has the same ar... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics With contemporary technological issues emerging as society pushes on, one topic that requires thorough thought is robot ethics concerning the law. Academics have been debating the process of how a government could go about creating legislation with robot ethics and law. A pair of scholars that have been as... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics The groundwork of their argument lays on the definition of robot as "non-biological autonomous agents that we think captures the essence of the regulatory and technological challenges that robots present, and which could usefully be the basis of regulation." Second, the pair explores the future advanced ca... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Robot ethics This is based off if we get the metaphor wrong for example, the legislation surrounding the emerging technological issue is most likely wrong. The fourth claim they argue against is a metaphor that the pair defines as "The Android Fallacy". They argue against the android fallacy which claims humans and non... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8434470 | Robot ethics |
Shaucha (Sanskrit: शौच, also spelled Saucha, Śauca) literally means purity, cleanliness and clearness. It refers to purity of mind, speech and body. Saucha is one of the Niyamas of Yoga. It is discussed in many ancient Indian texts such as the Mahabharata and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. It is a virtue in Hinduism and Jain... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8455324 | Shaucha |
Shaucha Shaucha, or holistic purity of the body, is considered essential for health, happiness and general well-being. External purity is achieved through daily ablutions, while internal purity is cultivated through physical exercises, including asana (postures) and pranayama (breathing techniques). Along with daily ab... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8455324 | Shaucha |
Shaucha The impurities of the intellect are cleansed through the process of self-examination, or knowledge of self ("Adhyatma-Vidya"). The mind is purified through mindfulness and meditation on one's intent, feelings, actions and its causes. Teachers of the Vedanta path of yoga prepare to have holy thoughts and for per... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8455324 | Shaucha |
Shaucha 32 of Yogasutra lists the five "niyamas". In verse II.40, Patanjali describes outer purity, while verse II.41 discusses inner purity, as follows: Saucha is one of the ten "Yamas" listed by Śāṇḍilya Upanishad, as well as by Svātmārāma. It is one of the virtuous restraints (yamas) taught in ancient Indian texts. ... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8455324 | Shaucha |
Shaucha For example, in Book 14 Chapter 38, it lists "Saucha" as a high quality found in the liberated, happy and dharmic person, Bhagavad Gita describes purity at three levels in Book 17, verses 14-16, namely body, speech and thoughts. Purity of body comes from cleanliness of body as well as from what one eats and dri... | Religion&Philosophy&Ethics | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8455324 | Shaucha |
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