The dictionary includes about 450 articles devoted to ethical concepts, problems, normative formulas and ethical sentences, as well as ethical schools and works. The dictionary summarizes the world's ethical research experience; about a third of the articles represent Indian, Chinese, and Arab-Muslim ethical traditions.[citation needed] The information and theoretical potential of the main content of the Dictionary is significantly supplemented by the Index , More than 600 words , Name index , Contains basic information on more than 800 individuals , Thematic column of articles , allowing the use of the Dictionary for the systematic study of ethics. Articles of the Dictionary are arranged in alphabetical order . The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Ethics has become a central part of a broad research project on the systematization of ethical knowledge carried out in the ethics sector of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences with the support (19951997) of the Russian Humanities Science Foundation ..