While specific styles taught by different teachers, in the mode of Asian martial arts, cannot be excluded, it is very clear ( including in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics ) that the objective of a teacher of combat sports was to help each of his athletes to develop his personal style that would fit his strengths and weaknesses.

The subjects taught included Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Theology, Law, Astronomy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Medical Science and Religion.

Ethics, he taught, depended on understanding the nature of the universe, and he taught a therapy of extirpating the unruly passions which depress and crush the soul.

Sudbury schools claim that " Ethics " is a course taught by life experience.

He taught Christian Ethics at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Harvard Divinity School from 1944 to 1970.

With the book, and in its subtitle, Oettingen also coined the word, and established the concept, of Sozialethik (" Social Ethics "), meant as a counter to Auguste Comte's " social physics " concept and as the establishment of a non-personal, non-individualistic ethics ; this is what Protestant ethics as taught in German universities is still called.

Endicott taught English in China and became professor of English and Ethics at West China Union University.

Subjects taught in the secondary part of the school include Latin, Mathematics, French, English, Ethics and religious culture, Gym, Art, Sciences, Geography and History.

The following subjects were taught in the grammar school: the basis of Latin and German, Geography, Anthropology and Arithmetic, Latin with syntax, Religious Lessons, Nature Studies and Anthropology, World ’ s History, Archeology, Physics, Logics, Rhetoric, Poetry and Ethics.

The subjects taught included Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Theology, Law, Astronomy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Medical Science and Religion.

The subjects taught included Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Theology, Law, Astronomy, Metaphysics, Ethics, Medical Science and Religion.

The first subjects taught at St. George's included Latin, Greek, French, English, Rhetoric, History, Mathematics, Logic, Metaphysics, Ethics, Drawing and Calligraphy.

In his work Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle defined a virtue as a balance point between a deficiency and an excess of a trait.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives a lengthy account of the virtue phronesis ( Greek: ϕρονησιϛ ), which has traditionally been translated as " prudence ", although this has become increasingly problematic as the word has fallen out of common usage.

Ronald F. Duska, holder of the Charles Lamont Post Chair of Ethics and the Professions at The American College, extends Ladd's objection, saying that it is a perversion of ethics and virtue for one's self-will to be identified with anything, as Royce would have it.

Anscombe's article Modern Moral Philosophy stimulated the development of virtue ethics as an alternative to Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, and Social Contract theories.

In his Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle, like Plato before him, argued that the pursuit of eudaimonia is an " activity of the soul in accordance with perfect virtue ", which further could only properly be exercised in the characteristic human community — the polis or city-state.

Nick Gier in Buddhist Ethics as Virtue Ethics compares Buddha's ethical teachings to Aristotle's: " Like Greek virtue ethics, Buddhist ethics is also humanistic and thoroughly personalist.

His conclusion is that Buddhist Ethics most closely resembles the ancient Greek virtue ethics found in Aristotle.

James Whitehill in Buddhist Ethics in Western Context: The Virtues Approach says: " Buddhism's legitimation in the West can be partially met by demonstrating that Buddhist morality is a virtue-oriented, character-based, community-focused ethics, commensurate with the Western ' ethics of virtue ' tradition.

This style of building up a picture wherein it becomes clear that praiseworthy virtues in their highest form, even virtues like courage, seem to require intellectual virtue, is a theme of discussion which Aristotle chooses to associate in the Nicomachean Ethics with Socrates, and indeed it is an approach we find portrayed in the Socratic dialogues of Plato.

As points out ( p. 212 ):- " The Ethics does not end at its apparent peak, identifying perfect happiness with the life devoted to theōria ; instead it goes on to introduce the need for a study of legislation, on the grounds that it is not sufficient only to know about virtue, but one should try to put that knowledge to use.

In Aristotelian Ethics, for example in the Nicomachean Ethics it is distinguished from other words for wisdom and intellectual virtues – such as episteme and techne – as the virtue of practical thought.

First discussed by Aristotle in his Nicomachean Ethics, it resurfaced to become an ideal ( virtue ) in Europe and North America in the 17th century ; and it gained considerable momentum during the Romantic movement, when sincerity was first celebrated as an artistic and social ideal.

Virtue Ethics is the belief that ethics should be more concerned with the character of the moral agent ( virtue ), rather than focusing on a set of rules dictating right and wrong actions, as in the cases of deontology and utilitarianism, or a focus on social context, such as is seen with Social Contract ethics.

In Ethics he recognised only a two-fold division of virtue, the theoretical and the practical, answering to the dianoietic and the ethical of Aristotle ; endeavoured to bring the ultimate object of life into nearer relation to natural impulses, and to show by similes the inseparability of the virtues ; pointed out that the recognition of the moral, as something to be striven after for its own sake, was a leading fundamental idea in the speeches of Demosthenes ; would not admit the harsh doctrine of apatheia, and, on the contrary, vindicated the claim of certain pleasurable sensations to be regarded as in accordance with nature, while he also insisted that moral definitions should be laid down in such a way that they might be applied by the man who had not yet attained to wisdom.

Erich Fromm in his work on " Human Ethics " discussed the conative nature of man by saying the way man achieves virtue is through the active use he makes of his powers.

The Medical Ethics Department, which provides support to the Committee, answers individual ethical enquiries from doctors who are members of the BMA and produces guidelines and other publications.

As for the Hobbesians, Singer attempts a response in the final chapter of Practical Ethics, arguing that self-interested reasons support adoption of the moral point of view, such as ' the paradox of hedonism ', which counsels that happiness is best found by not looking for it, and the need most people feel to relate to something larger than their own concerns.

In The Methods of Ethics Henry Sidgwick asked “ is it total or average happiness that we seek to make a maximum ?” He noted that aspects of the question had been overlooked and answered the question himself by saying that what had to be maximized was the average multiplied by the number of people living.

John Stuart Mill's distinction between higher and lower pleasures might suggest that he gave more status to humans but in The Methods of Ethics Sidgwick says " We have next to consider who the " all " are, whose happiness is to be taken into account.

Following the ideas of the Academics, Zeno divided philosophy into three parts: Logic ( a very wide subject including rhetoric, grammar, and the theories of perception and thought ); Physics ( not just science, but the divine nature of the universe as well ); and Ethics, the end goal of which was to achieve happiness through the right way of living according to Nature.

In the Nicomachean Ethics, written in 350 BCE, Aristotle stated that happiness ( also being well and doing well ) is the only thing that humans desire for its own sake, unlike riches, honor, health or friendship.

Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness.

Aristotelian Ethics is about what makes a virtuous character ( ethikē aretē ) possible, which is in turn necessary if happiness is to be possible.

Zeno divided philosophy into three parts: Logic ( which was a very wide subject including rhetoric, grammar, and the theories of perception and thought ); Physics ( including not just science, but the divine nature of the universe as well ); and Ethics, the end goal of which was to achieve happiness through the right way of living according to Nature.

Ethics tend to be focused on moral goods rather than natural goods, while economics tends to be interested in the opposite.

Another by Hoppe, The Economics and Ethics of Private Property, covers a wide range of topics including employment, interest, money, banking, trade cycles, taxes, public goods, war, imperialism, and the rise and fall of civilizations.

These authors, in such works as The Republic and Laws by Plato, and The Politics and Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle, analyzed political systems philosophically, going beyond earlier Greek poetic and historical reflections which can be found in the works of epic poets like Homer and Hesiod, historians like Herodotus and Thucydides, and dramatists such as Sophocles, Aristophanes, and Euripides.

In February 2010 APA's Council of Representatives voted to amend the association's Code of Ethics to make clear that its standards can never be interpreted to justify or defend violating human rights.

First explicitly noted by the philosopher Henry Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics, the paradox of hedonism points out that pleasure cannot be acquired directly, it can only be acquired indirectly.

At many schools, secular classes in Ethics can be attended alternatively.

Accordingly, the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology ( ECNH ) published a brochure in 2008 about how researchers can respect the dignity of plants.

One criticism that is frequently made focuses on the problem of guidance ; opponents, such as Robert Louden in his seminal article " Some Vices of Virtue Ethics ," question whether the idea of a virtuous moral actor, believer, or judge can provide the guidance necessary for action, belief formation, or the decision of legal disputes.

However, the American Medical Association ( AMA ) Code of Ethics provides that physicians may dispense drugs within their office practices as long as there is no patient exploitation and patients have the right to a written prescription that can be filled elsewhere.

Hilary Putnam's book Ethics without ontology ( Harvard, 2004 ) argues for a similar view, that ethical ( and for that matter mathematical ) sentences can be true and objective without there being any objects to make them so.

This is the heart of the " Fundamental Question of Ethics " that appears at the very start of the Chronicles, which can be rephrased as " Do one's actions in dreams have any real significance?

As an example, it can be noticed that the NAR-CSBR Bilateral Cooperation Agreement of November 12, 2001 also created a commitment to promote and enforce mutually acceptable codes of ethics ( Code of Ethics meaning those that been promulgated by the cooperating associations for use in their respective countries, each of which is acknowledged to be acceptable to the other ).

* Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia ( APEGBC ): All members in the association's code of Ethics must ensure that government, the public can rely on BC's professional engineers and Geoscientists to act at all times with fairness, courtesy and good faith to their employers, employee and customers, and to uphold the truth, honesty and trustworthiness, and to safe guard human life and the environment.

In the United States, for example, the National Press Photographers Association ( NPPA ) have set out a Code of Ethics promoting the accuracy of published images, advising that photographers " do not manipulate images [...] that can mislead viewers or misrepresent subjects.

In many ways this work parallels the similar Eudemian Ethics, which has only eight books, and the two works can be fruitfully compared.

The shuttlebays, cargo bays, and other areas of the ship can be converted into triage wards ; such conversion of a cargo bay appears in the TNG episode " Ethics ".

In addition to a drug reference phone line, where athletes can speak to an expert, USADA has partnered with UK Anti-Doping ( UKAD ) and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport ( CCES ) to provide the Global Drug Reference Online ( GlobalDRO ) tool.

It can be used to analyze both a general, suprahistorical phenomenon ( like capitalism ) or historically unique occurrences ( like Weber's own Protestant Ethics analysis ).

Which all of these concepts can also be found in his book Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers.

According to the Boston College Law School study, " A dentist who is found guilty of violating the ADA Code of Ethics can be sentenced, censured, suspended, or expelled from the ADA " and the " ADA forbids its dentists from suggesting mercury removal under threat of license suspension ".

Students can earn a degree with a focus in Mormon Studies, Catholicism, Islamic Studies, History of Christianity, Hebrew Bible, Indic Studies, Coptic Studies, Zoroastrianism ; additional programs include Women's Studies in Religion, Religion and American Politics, Ethics and Culture, and Philosophy of Religion and Theology.

According to Living Ethics, field of science can not be restricted by studying biological objects only.

Ethics can thus be viewed as a lever but one that rests on a moral fulcrum of pre-existing assumptions, like the bodies of the beings in conflict, placed there by circumstances, environments, situations, mostly out of their control-only the choice of resolution is under their own control.

But Spinoza insists that " no attribute of a substance can be truly conceived from which it follows that the substance can be divided " ( Which means that one cannot conceive an attribute in a way that leads to division of substance ), and that " a substance which is absolutely infinite is indivisible " ( Ethics, Part I, Propositions 12 and 13 ).