Professional Virtue Principle
Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple
Class Hierarchy
- Thing
- ↳ entity (bfo)
- ↳ continuant (bfo)
- ↳ generically dependent continuant (bfo)
- ↳ information content entity (iao)
- ↳ directive information entity (iao)
- ↳ Principle (proethica-core)
- ↳ Professional Virtue Principle
- ↳ AI Tool Disclosure Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ AI Verification Competence Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Attribution and Credit Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Bid Transparency Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Client Conduct Monitoring Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Client Economic Pressure Resistance Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Commercial Inducement Resistance Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Competence Boundary Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Competence Principle
- ↳ Competence Recognition Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Complete Options Analysis Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Complete Reporting Principle
- ↳ Complete Reporting Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Concurrent Safety Reporting Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Conflict of Interest Disclosure Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Cooperative Peer Review Obligation (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Cost Allocation Bias Prohibition Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Deliverable Completeness Disclosure Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Fact-Based Disclosure Threshold Principle (proethica-intermediate-extended)
- ↳ Honesty Principle
- ↳ Integrity Principle
- ↳ Objectivity Principle
- ↳ Professional Accountability Principle
- ↳ Schedule Pressure Resistance Principle
- ↳ Whistleblower Personal Conscience Principle
- ... more subclasses
Definition
A character-based principle defining professional excellence and ethical sensitivities specific to professional identity (BFO: generically dependent continuant)
Examples: Integrity, Competence, Honesty, Professional Courage, Accountability. These shape professional character and decision-making.
Definition source
- Oakley and Cocking (2001). Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles. Cambridge University Press.
- Anderson and Anderson (2018). GenEth: a general ethical dilemma analyzer. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics 9(1): 337-357 (doi:10.1515/pjbr-2018-0024).
Mappings & provenance
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Property Structure
1 · Object and Data Properties
rdfs:domain on this class or ancestor
| Property | Range | Description |
|---|---|---|
| establishedBy inherited | CodeProvision | Indicates which code provision establishes this ethical concept. |
| invokedBy inherited | Agent | Relates a Principle to the Agent(s) that invoke it in the case scenario (the parties who appeal to the principle to justify or evaluate conduct). May name several agents. |
2 · Definitional Attributes
SHACL definitional shape
| Attribute | Property (sh:path) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| principle kind | principleCategory | The controlled principle kind, which drives the four-kind subClassOf typing: FundamentalEthicalPrinciple, ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple, RelationalPrinciple, DomainSpecificPrinciple. The canonical leaf label becomes the rdf:type; the category is a routing input, not stored as a literal. |
| extensional cases | extensionalCases | Class-level prior cases that instantiate the principle (McLaren extensional grounding); an optional class-mint field. |
3 · Bearer Attributes
SHACL property shape
individual data
| Attribute | Property (sh:path) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| interpretation | interpretation | Per-case reading of what the principle requires in this situation (a defeasibility-pipeline source field). |
| concrete expression | concreteExpression | How the principle is concretely expressed in the case (a defeasibility-pipeline source field). |
| applied to | appliedTo | What the principle is applied to in the case (the situation or party it bears on). |
| balancing with | balancingWith | The competing principle or value this principle is balanced against in the case, recorded as a literal; extraction records the tension but asserts no defeat or precedence, and the defeasibility edges are materialized by a separate pass from this field. |
| tension resolution | tensionResolution | How the case resolves the tension involving this principle (a defeasibility-pipeline source field). |
| invoked by | invokedBy | The agent who invokes the principle, via the P->Agent invokedBy edge (resolved to a case Agent by embedding shortlist + LLM select; a Board-pattern invoking party resolves deterministically to the case-scoped NSPE Board of Ethical Review Agent). Range: Agent. |
4 · Referenced By
rdfs:range on this class or ancestor
| From | Property | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Action | guidedByPrinciple inherited | Relates an action to a principle that directs it. The principle supplies the value the action is taken to serve. |
| Code Provision | establishes inherited | Relates a code provision to the ethical concepts (principles, obligations, constraints) it establishes or defines. |
| Obligation | derivedFromPrinciple inherited | Relates an obligation to the principle or principles it operationalizes. The obligation gives concrete directive force to the more abstract value the principle expresses (Dennis et al. 2016). |
| Role | adheresToPrinciple inherited | Relates a role to principles that guide its conduct; the role-relative applicability edge of the R->P->O chain (the role determines which principles apply to conduct in that standing). |
Subclasses 8
Competence Principle
The professional virtue principle requiring maintenance and application of professional knowledge and skill within areas... Complete Reporting Principle
The value that a professional reports findings completely and does not omit material facts that qualify or contradict a ... Honesty Principle
The value that a professional is truthful and avoids deception or misrepresentation in professional dealings. Integrity Principle
The professional virtue principle of maintaining honesty, truthfulness, and ethical consistency in professional practice... Objectivity Principle
The value that professional judgments and opinions are issued objectively and truthfully, free from bias or undue influe... Professional Accountability Principle
The value that a professional takes personal responsibility for, and acknowledges error in, work performed under their a... Schedule Pressure Resistance Principle
The value that a professional does not compromise technical or ethical standards in response to schedule or commercial p... Whistleblower Personal Conscience Principle
The value that a professional may act on personal conscience to disclose conduct that endangers the public, beyond the m...
The professional virtue principle requiring maintenance and application of professional knowledge and skill within areas... Complete Reporting Principle
The value that a professional reports findings completely and does not omit material facts that qualify or contradict a ... Honesty Principle
The value that a professional is truthful and avoids deception or misrepresentation in professional dealings. Integrity Principle
The professional virtue principle of maintaining honesty, truthfulness, and ethical consistency in professional practice... Objectivity Principle
The value that professional judgments and opinions are issued objectively and truthfully, free from bias or undue influe... Professional Accountability Principle
The value that a professional takes personal responsibility for, and acknowledges error in, work performed under their a... Schedule Pressure Resistance Principle
The value that a professional does not compromise technical or ethical standards in response to schedule or commercial p... Whistleblower Personal Conscience Principle
The value that a professional may act on personal conscience to disclose conduct that endangers the public, beyond the m...
Used in cases 41
Case ontologies that instantiate this class or one of its base-ontology descendants. Computed from each individual's type, so the list stays current as cases are extracted. The originating case is shown under Extraction details.
Case 4 Case 5 Case 6 Case 7 Case 8 Case 9 Case 10 Case 11 Case 12 Case 14 Case 15 Case 16 Case 19 Case 20 Case 56 Case 57 Case 58 Case 71 Case 74 Case 75 Case 76 Case 85 Case 86 Case 92 Case 103 Case 108 Case 111 Case 116 Case 117 Case 120 Case 121 Case 133 Case 134 Case 145 Case 151 Case 163 Case 164 Case 167 Case 173 Case 174 Case 175@prefix core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix dcterms: <http://purl.org/dc/terms/> .
@prefix iao: <http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IAO_> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix pcsh: <http://proethica.org/shapes/core#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix sh: <http://www.w3.org/ns/shacl#> .
@prefix skos: <http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
proeth:ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Professional Virtue Principle"@en ;
iao:0000115 "A character-based principle defining professional excellence and ethical sensitivities specific to professional identity (BFO: generically dependent continuant)"@en ;
iao:0000119 "Anderson and Anderson (2018). GenEth: a general ethical dilemma analyzer. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics 9(1): 337-357 (doi:10.1515/pjbr-2018-0024).",
"Oakley and Cocking (2001). Virtue Ethics and Professional Roles. Cambridge University Press." ;
dcterms:source <https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511487118>,
<https://doi.org/10.1515/pjbr-2018-0024> ;
rdfs:comment "Examples: Integrity, Competence, Honesty, Professional Courage, Accountability. These shape professional character and decision-making."@en ;
rdfs:subClassOf core:Principle ;
skos:definition "Professional virtue principles guide professional identity formation and ethical sensitivities (Oakley and Cocking 2001). These principles are learned through expert examples (Anderson and Anderson 2018) and exemplified through model professional behavior cases, creating role-generated moral demands that shape professional character."@en .
pcsh:CaseAnnotationShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Shared per-case annotation schema (all nine components)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "The cross-component annotation fields on committed case individuals: proeth:confidence (extraction confidence, decimal; all components except Action, whose Step-3 contract carries no confidence field), proeth:textReferences (verbatim supporting quotes, universal), proeth-prov sourceText (the source snippet, on the Step-1/2 provenance layers; Step-3 A/E individuals ground via textReferences only), and the involvement gloss (proeth:caseInvolvement on role individuals, proeth:caseContext on obligation, capability, and constraint individuals). Values are per-individual; the fields do not individuate any type."@en ;
sh:property [ sh:description "Extraction confidence for this individual (0 to 1)." ;
sh:name "confidence" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path proeth:confidence ],
[ sh:description "Verbatim case quotes supporting this individual." ;
sh:name "text references" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:textReferences ],
[ sh:description "How this individual figures in the case narrative (role individuals; the same text is routed into rdfs:comment)." ;
sh:name "case involvement" ;
sh:order 3 ;
sh:path proeth:caseInvolvement ],
[ sh:description "Grounding context in this case (obligation, capability, and constraint individuals)." ;
sh:name "case context" ;
sh:order 4 ;
sh:path proeth:caseContext ] ;
sh:targetClass core:Action,
core:Capability,
core:Constraint,
core:Event,
core:Obligation,
core:Principle,
core:Resource,
core:Role,
core:State .
pcsh:PrincipleDefinitionShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Principle definition schema (type-level, descriptive, field contract)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "What individuates a principle TYPE: its canonical kind (drives the four-kind subClassOf typing; the canonical leaf becomes the rdf:type) and the extensional cases that ground it (McLaren). The five per-case narrative literals and the invokedBy edge are per-individual and now declared on PrinciplePropertyShape, mirroring the RoleDefinitionShape/ProfessionalRolePropertyShape split so the {{ principle_schema }} prompt separates the type judgment from what the case supplies. Descriptive only (no validation result); principle_category is a routing input, not stored as a literal."@en ;
sh:property [ sh:description "The controlled principle kind, which drives the four-kind subClassOf typing: FundamentalEthicalPrinciple, ProfessionalVirtuePrinciple, RelationalPrinciple, DomainSpecificPrinciple. The canonical leaf label becomes the rdf:type; the category is a routing input, not stored as a literal." ;
sh:name "principle kind" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path proeth:principleCategory ],
[ sh:description "Class-level prior cases that instantiate the principle (McLaren extensional grounding); an optional class-mint field." ;
sh:name "extensional cases" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:extensionalCases ] ;
sh:targetClass core:Principle .
pcsh:PrinciplePropertyShape a sh:NodeShape ;
rdfs:label "Principle per-case schema (individual data, non-definitional)"@en ;
rdfs:comment "What a principle INDIVIDUAL is described by in a specific case: the five narrative literals the defeasibility pipeline consumes and the agent that invokes it. These do NOT individuate the principle TYPE (that is PrincipleDefinitionShape); their values are per-case, asserted on the individual. Descriptive only."@en ;
sh:property [ sh:description "Per-case reading of what the principle requires in this situation (a defeasibility-pipeline source field)." ;
sh:name "interpretation" ;
sh:order 1 ;
sh:path proeth:interpretation ],
[ sh:description "How the principle is concretely expressed in the case (a defeasibility-pipeline source field)." ;
sh:name "concrete expression" ;
sh:order 2 ;
sh:path proeth:concreteExpression ],
[ sh:description "What the principle is applied to in the case (the situation or party it bears on)." ;
sh:name "applied to" ;
sh:order 3 ;
sh:path proeth:appliedTo ],
[ sh:description "The competing principle or value this principle is balanced against in the case, recorded as a literal; extraction records the tension but asserts no defeat or precedence, and the defeasibility edges are materialized by a separate pass from this field." ;
sh:name "balancing with" ;
sh:order 4 ;
sh:path proeth:balancingWith ],
[ sh:description "How the case resolves the tension involving this principle (a defeasibility-pipeline source field)." ;
sh:name "tension resolution" ;
sh:order 5 ;
sh:path proeth:tensionResolution ],
[ sh:description "The agent who invokes the principle, via the P->Agent invokedBy edge (resolved to a case Agent by embedding shortlist + LLM select; a Board-pattern invoking party resolves deterministically to the case-scoped NSPE Board of Ethical Review Agent). Range: Agent." ;
sh:name "invoked by" ;
sh:order 6 ;
sh:path core:invokedBy ] ;
sh:targetClass core:Principle .