Some of the main topics of the field are moral responsibility, moral development, moral character ( especially as related to virtue ethics ), altruism, psychological egoism, moral luck, and moral disagreement.

Some academics ( such as Thomas Alured Faunce ) feel that whistleblowers should at least be entitled to a rebuttable presumption that they are attempting to apply ethical principles in the face of obstacles and that whistleblowing would be more respected in governance systems if it had a firmer academic basis in virtue ethics.

Some religions regard Chastity as a virtue expected of faithful adherents.

The play deals with the issues of mercy, justice, and truth and their relationship to pride and humility: " Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall ".

Some coroners hold office by virtue of holding another office: in Nebraska, the county district attorney is the coroner ; in many counties in Texas, the Justice of the Peace may be in charge of death investigation ; in other places, the sheriff is the coroner.

Some regard integrity as a virtue in that they see accountability and moral responsibility as necessary tools for maintaining such consistency.

Some see it as a virtue for helping them to remember their favourite applications with Spanish instead of English names.

Some authors have interpreted this " rate of exploitation " as a purely economic or commercial concept ( in the sense of " labor utilisation ", the use of a resource ) while others see it primarily as a moral or political concept referring to the domination of a social class which commands labour in virtue of ownership of capital assets.

Some delineate charity to mean only benevolent giving, while others, such as Roman Catholics, have multiple interrelated meanings ( i. e. charity is the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for his own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God: New Catholic Catechism 1822 ).

Some virtue theorists concede this point, but respond by opposing the very notion of legitimate legislative authority instead, effectively advocating some form of anarchism as the political ideal.

Some virtue theorists might respond to this overall objection with the notion of a " bad act " also being an act characteristic of vice.

Some persons are entitled to the prefix by virtue of their offices.

Some believe that the Germans recognized him as an agent by virtue of his rather poor French accent.

Some things are valued both for themselves and for their consequences ; if the instrumental optimist wants ( as some of them surely do ) to insist not only on accepting the instrumental worth of philosophy, but also of accepting nothing but its instrumental worth, then she must support the stronger claim that philosophy could only have value in virtue of its contribution to scientific-technical progress in some field or another.

Some core doctrines include an herbivorous diet ( vegan, vegetable food only ), peaceful living ( no warring or violence ; pacifism ), living a life of virtue, and service to others.

Some central ideas of Plato's dialogues are the Theory of Forms, i. e., that the mind is imbued with an innate capacity to understand and contemplate concepts from a higher order preeminent world, concepts more real, permanent, and universal than or representative of the things of this world, which are only changing and temporal ; the idea of the immortal soul being superior to the body ; the idea of evil as simple ignorance of truth ; that true knowledge leads to true virtue ; that art is subordinate to moral purpose ; and that the society of the city-state should be governed by a merit class of propertyless philosopher kings, with no permanent wives or paternity rights over their children, and be protected by an athletically gifted, honorable, duty bound military class.

Some of the theoretical and practical tensions are also familiar from such disciplines as program evaluation and social policy, and perhaps paradoxically, Management Information Systems, where there is continual debate over the relative virtue and values of different forms of research and action, spread around different understandings of the virtues or otherwise of allegedly " scientific " or " value-free " activity ( frequently associated with " responsible " and deterministic public policy philosophies ), and contrasted with more interpretive and process driven viewpoints in bottom-up or practice driven activity.

Some rationalist ethical intuitionists characterize moral " intuitions " as a species of belief ( for example, Audi, 2005, pp. 33 – 6 ) that are self-evident in that they are justified simply by virtue of one's understanding of the proposition believed.

Some Pakistanis are suspicious of the MMA, as the MMA, by virtue of its nature as a professedly religious Islamic party, openly states it desires the establishment of a theocracy, and does not believe in the Western notion of a democracy.

Some of the main topics of the field are moral judgment, moral reasoning, moral responsibility, moral development, moral character ( especially as related to virtue ethics ), altruism, psychological egoism, moral luck, and moral disagreement.

Some virtue epistemologists use reliabilism as a basis for belief justification, stressing reliable functioning of the intellect.

Some varieties of virtue epistemology that contain normative elements, such as virtue responsibilism, can provide a unified framework of normativity and value.

Some night services may be provided by virtue of operating some routes as 24-hour services.

Some ethicists, most clearly Jane Jacobs, see this as simple corruption.

Some clinicians and medical ethicists view even the provision of nutrition and hydration as medically futile.

Some ethicists emphasize the role of the ethicist to sort out right versus right in a given context.

Some ethicists are also concerned with the use of TMS and fear that the technique could be used to alter patients in ways that are undesired by the patient.

Some jurisdictions hold this as an absolute right, and in its absence, a sentence may potentially be overturned, with the result that a new sentencing hearing must be held.

Some belief systems, such as those in the Abrahamic tradition, hold that the dead go to a specific plane of existence after death, as determined by a god, gods, or other divine judgment, based on their actions or beliefs during life.

Some Rabbis hold that it must have been carried off to Babylon, while others hold that it must have been hidden lest it be carried off into Babylon and never brought back.

Some traditions hold that Aristobulus of Britannia, one of the Seventy Disciples, was the brother of Barnabas.

Some groups of individuals who hold basic Protestant tenets identify themselves simply as " Christians " or " born-again Christians ".

Some writers, such as James-Charles Noonan, hold that, in the case of cardinals, the form used for signatures should be used also when referring to them, even in English ; and this is the usual but not the only way of referring to cardinals in Latin .< ref > An Internet search will uncover some hundreds of examples of " Cardinalis Ioannes < surname >", examples modern and centuries-old ( such as this from 1620 ), and the phrase " dominus cardinalis Petrus Caputius " is found in a document of 1250.

Some dancers prefer to hold the arms much lower, similar to conventional ballroom positioning.

Some Christian denominations hold that salvation depends upon transformational faith in Jesus, which expresses itself in good works as a testament ( or witness ) to ones faith for others to see ( primarily Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholicism ), while others ( including most Protestants ) hold that faith alone is necessary for salvation.

Some deists rejected the claim of Jesus ' divinity but continued to hold him in high regard as a moral teacher ( see, for example, Thomas Jefferson's famous Jefferson Bible and Matthew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation ).

Some hold that knowledge of any kind can only be gained a priori, while others claim that some knowledge can also be gained a posteriori.

Some forms of Buddhism hold belief in cycles in which life span of human beings changes according to human nature.

Some Shaivites hold the view that he is incessantly destroying and creating the world.

Some scientists hold that H. floresiensis was a modern H. sapiens with pathological dwarfism.

Some foundationalists, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and Alvin Plantinga, hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith.

Some hold that singing in the Spirit is identified with singing in tongues in, which they hold to be " spiritual or spirited singing ", as opposed to " communicative or impactive singing " which Paul refers to as " singing with the understanding ".

Some of these mass relations hold approximately, but most don't ( see Georgi-Jarlskog mass relation ).

Some scholars hold that the Soviet Union was a hybrid entity containing elements common to both multinational empires and nation states.

Some Asian countries hold bilateral agreements to irradiate exotic fruits for quarantine purposes and export it to the USA.

Some who hold this theory regard the Limbo of Infants as a state of maximum natural happiness, others as one of " mildest punishment " consisting at least of privation of the beatific vision and of any hope of obtaining it.

Some sets include racks to hold tiles ( if they are shaped small or differently ).

* Some scholars hold that there has been extensive editorial reshaping of the stories and statements within the Mishnah ( and later, in the Talmud.