Branch II · Conduct
Ethica concerns the capacities and obligations that keep conduct coherent over time. Virtue is treated as a practiced ability, visible in patterns rather than claimed as identity.
Practice / Ethica
What the branch governs
Discipline sustains action. Resilience restores capacity. Empathy improves how accurately another person is understood. Curiosity keeps judgment open to revision. Courage supports action when cost or uncertainty threatens paralysis.
A standard becomes character only as it survives ordinary use, pressure, error, and repair.
A maintained standard must still answer to purpose and evidence. Revision protects discipline from becoming rule worship.