Whole-Person Integrity Standard Activation State
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18b5672b
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Whole-PersonIntegrityStandardActivationState
Definition
State in which the ethical evaluation of a professional engineer's conduct must extend beyond the specific practice of engineering to encompass the engineer's personal conduct, character, and integrity across all professional domains — activated when the engineer has engaged in conduct outside the strict practice of engineering (such as contractor license fraud) that nonetheless reflects on the engineer's honesty, integrity, and fitness as a professional, and where the NSPE Code's purpose of maintaining public confidence in professional integrity requires that such conduct be subject to ethical scrutiny regardless of its domain.
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State in which the ethical evaluation of a professional engineer's conduct must extend beyond the specific practice of engineering to encompass the engineer's personal conduct, character, and integrity across all professional domains — activated when the engineer has engaged in conduct outside the strict practice of engineering (such as contractor license fraud) that nonetheless reflects on the engineer's honesty, integrity, and fitness as a professional, and where the NSPE Code's purpose of maintaining public confidence in professional integrity requires that such conduct be subject to ethical scrutiny regardless of its domain.
Source Evidence
Source Text
BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers
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Ontology
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Content Hash
18b5672bc93b1f06...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
148
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T22:52:20.599552+00:00
First Discovered In Case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T22:52:20.599552+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 148 Extraction