Whereas consequentialist theories posit that consequences of action should be the primary focus of our thinking about ethics, virtue ethics insists that it is the character rather than the consequences of actions that should be the focal point.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

In fiber optics, a cladding mode is a mode that is confined to the cladding of an optical fiber by virtue of the fact that the cladding has a higher refractive index than the surrounding medium, which is either air or the primary polymer overcoat.

Gradually an industry consensus emerged that the original EJB specification's primary virtue — enabling transactional integrity over distributed applications — was of limited use to most enterprise applications, and the functionality delivered by simpler frameworks like Spring and Hibernate was more useful.

" However, where utilitarians focused on reasoning about consequences as the primary tool for reaching happiness, Aquinas agreed with Aristotle that happiness cannot be reached solely through reasoning about consequences of acts, but also requires a pursuit of good causes for acts, such as habits according to virtue.

The virtue of the primary machinery employed — Galois theory, group cohomology, group representations, and L-functions — is that it allows one to deal with new phenomena and yet partially recover the behaviour of the usual integers.

" Kant considered critical conscience to be an internal court in which our thoughts accuse or excuse one another ; he acknowledged that morally mature people do often describe contentment or peace in the soul after following conscience to perform a duty, but argued that for such acts to produce virtue their primary motivation should simply be duty, not expectation of any such bliss.

According to Royce, loyalty is a virtue, indeed a primary virtue, " the heart of all the virtues, the central duty amongst all the duties ".

Aristippus and his followers seized upon this, and made happiness the primary factor in existence, denying that virtue had any intrinsic value.

By virtue of their primary defeat, the Texas Ford supporters were shut out of the national convention in Kansas City.

In virtue responsibilism, the emphasis is not on primary mechanisms such as perception and memory.

The primary virtue is conscientiousness, which focuses on the correct end of intellectual living.

The primary difference between himself and Drizzt noticed by Artemis was Drizzt's virtue, specifically Drizzt's caring and concern for his friends.

Many Jewish thinkers view chesed as the primary virtue.

In January 1908 he faced the legislature as the Democratic nominee for a seat in the U. S. Senate by virtue of the primary held two years earlier.

This daughter, Rebecca Stewart, was apparently concealed because Stewart's virtue and beauty were the primary bases of her appeal.

Other, later phenomena associated with the concept of civic virtue include McGuffey's Eclectic Readers, a series of primary school textbooks whose compiler, William Holmes McGuffey, deliberately sought out patriotic and religious sentiments to instill these values in the children who read them.

In virtue and philosophical thought it has the power to elevate itself above the reason into a state of ecstasy, where it can behold, or ascend to, that one good primary Being whom reason cannot know.

The main disagreement between Kirk, who would become described as a traditionalist conservative, and the libertarians was whether tradition and virtue or liberty should be their primary concern.

The specific virtues of the Randian hero, like the Aristotelian ideal, are created from rationality, the primary virtue ; rationality is the hero's basic tool of survival, to be exercised at all times.

Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology describes axiomatic concepts as " the identification of a primary fact of reality, which cannot be analyzed, i. e., reduced to other facts or broken into component parts ".

The other major long work by an Objectivist, Charles Reznikoff's Testimony ( 1934 – 1978 ), follows Pound in the direct use of primary source documents as its raw material.

It also includes the study of the more commonplace questions of values (" the ethics of the ordinary ") which arise in primary care and other branches of medicine.

From the standpoint of deontological ethics, the primary issues surrounding the morality of organ donation are semantical in nature.

An example of this second usage is to label as scientism any attempt to claim science as the only or primary source of human values ( a traditional domain of ethics ) or as the source of meaning and purpose ( a traditional domain of religion and related worldviews ).

It also includes the study of the more commonplace questions of values (" the ethics of the ordinary ") which arise in primary care and other branches of medicine.

A similar situation is to be found in Brandenburg where the subject life skills, ethics, and religious education ( Lebensgestaltung, Ethik, Religionskunde – LER ) is the primary subject but parents or students older than 13 can choose to replace it with ( Christian ) religious studies or even to take both.

Berkley announced that she will run for the United States Senate in April 2011 to succeed John Ensign, who resigned amidst an ethics scandal .. She secured the Democratic nomination in the June primary and will face Senator Dean Heller in the November elections.

The tension between the ratings imperative and the more traditional journalistic ethics of the show's senior staff is the primary conflict that drives the show, but storylines also include the team's efforts to get the stories that will make it to air each week.

This left Bell vulnerable to a primary challenge from a black or Latino Democrat, and prompted him to file an ethics challenge against Tom DeLay.

The primary function of the shustrs is the enforcement of the laws of ethics as physical laws ( hence the word ethicsphere ).

There are three primary groups based out of the U. S. that are founded on the application of anthropology with accute attention to ethics and social implications: American Anthropological Association ( AAA ), Society for Applied Anthropology ( SFAA ), and the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology ( NAPA ).

Franks entered the race in April, two months before the primary, after Governor Donald DiFrancesco dropped out of the race because of an unending series of newspaper stories highlighting ethics concerns.

One of the primary functions of journalism ethics is to aid journalists in dealing with many ethical dilemmas they may encounter.

The issues of values underlying this practice are usually known as primary care ethics.

" MacKay's primary campaign had focused on ethics — appropriate for defeating Democrat Bill Gunter, but useless against Mack — and he failed to blunt the ideological attack.

The D ' Amato campaign was no less bold on the ethics issue, repeating pay-for-play charges made by ex-Rep. Geraldine Ferraro during the Democratic primary, with ads featuring excerpts from the Abrams-Ferraro debate.

Chris Bell, a former Congressman from Houston, filed an ethics complaint against former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay as a lame duck who had been defeated in his party's primary after the controversial mid-decade redistricting in the state.

In the primary school, pupils study their native language, mathematics, history, geography, science, art, music, religion or ethics, and sports.

In 1993, he came back to challenge Holtzman in the primary, following ethics accusations against Holtzman.

The Center for Inquiry ( CFI ) is a non-profit educational organization with headquarters in the United States whose primary mission is to encourage evidence-based inquiry into paranormal and fringe science claims, alternative medicine and mental health practices, religion, secular ethics, and society.

In place of RE, there is a short but nonetheless compulsory subject called in primary school, where the purpose is to teach moral values rather than to teach ethics as an academic subject.