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"scope_statement": "This model owns the Golden Rule as an ethical principle that evaluates treatment of others through imagined reversal of interpersonal roles, including its formulations, interpretations, applications, and limits.", "in_scope": [ "Positive formulations directing treatment one would welcome and negative formulations forbidding treatment one would reject", "Role reversal between an acting person and an affected person", "Interpretations of whose preferences, circumstances, and interests govern the comparison", "Application to proposed actions, omissions, and interpersonal policies", "Limits arising from different preferences, unequal power, consent, and conflicting obligations" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Reciprocity as conditional exchange, repayment, or retaliation", "Complete ethical theories and general accounts of moral obligation", "Religious traditions and philosophical systems in their entirety", "Empathy as a psychological capacity independently of ethical judgment", "Legal rights, professional duties, and consent frameworks as independently defined systems", "Unrelated technical principles also called a golden rule" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A formulation connects treatment of another person to treatment the actor would accept or reject under some reversal of roles.", "Its ethical demand need not depend on the other person returning a favor, distinguishing it from conditional exchange.", "It uses an interpersonal comparison rather than merely asking whether an action produces the largest aggregate benefit.", "It does not automatically mean treating everyone identically; the interpretation must specify how differences in circumstances affect role reversal.", "A requirement to follow the recipient's preferences alone is distinguishable from the Golden Rule unless an explicit role-reversal argument connects them." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Formulation polarity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Positive injunction; negative 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"Construct an explicit actor-recipient reversal for a proposed action or omission.", "Compare judgments produced by positive, negative, and preference-sensitive interpretations.", "Identify missing recipient information and formulate questions that avoid assuming shared preferences.", "Detect conflicts with consent, rights, duties, or effects on third parties and route the decision for additional assessment.", "Explain an application through its formulation, assumptions, role mapping, and unresolved limitations." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "formulation-and-identity", "name": "Formulation and identity", "description": "Establishes which ethical formulation is being modeled and why it counts as an instance of the Golden Rule.", "rationale": "The label alone cannot distinguish variations of the ethical principle from exchange rules or unrelated technical uses.", "layers": [ { "id": "ethical-formulation", "name": "Ethical formulation", "description": "Captures 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"specified-reversal", "name": "Specified reversal", "description": "Describe the imagined exchange of positions, including whether knowledge, vulnerability, authority, and practical constraints transfer with the recipient's role.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who acts, who receives the treatment, and what exactly is exchanged in the imagined reversal?", "kind": "definition", "id": "specified-reversal-q01" }, { "text": "Which differences in power, knowledge, or vulnerability must the actor retain or adopt for the comparison to be meaningful?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "specified-reversal-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "preference-interpretation", "name": "Preference interpretation", "description": "Distinguishes projection of the actor's tastes from interpretations responsive to the recipient's situation.", "findings": [ { "id": "preference-divergence", "name": "Preference divergence", "description": "Record relevant disagreements in preferences and identify how the chosen interpretation handles them rather than assuming that welcome treatment is universal.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the test use what the actor currently wants or what the actor would want with the recipient's circumstances and preferences?", "kind": "definition", "id": "preference-divergence-q01" }, { "text": "What should the agent ask the recipient before using its own or the actor's preferences to judge the treatment?", "kind": "action", "id": "preference-divergence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "practical-application", "name": "Practical application", "description": "Connects a stated Golden Rule interpretation to concrete choices and explainable judgments.", "rationale": "Recognizing the maxim is insufficient unless an agent can show what treatment it evaluates and how the comparison bears on a decision.", "layers": [ { "id": "treatment-comparison", "name": "Treatment comparison", "description": "Applies the formulation to an action, omission, or repeated practice at an explicit level of 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"evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Golden Rule this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Reciprocity", "difference": "Reciprocity can mean responding to another person's actual conduct; the Golden Rule need not depend on how the other person has behaved." }, { "name": "Kant's categorical imperative", "difference": "The categorical imperative tests principles of action through requirements such as universalizability, rather than asking whether the agent would welcome the same treatment." }, { "name": "Platinum Rule", "difference": "The Platinum Rule explicitly prioritizes how others wish to be treated, whereas the familiar Golden Rule wording begins with the agent's own imagined wishes." }, { 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and access", "description": "What a Golden Rule says, how it is encoded and who may read it.", "rationale": "An informational thing carries content that can be copied, versioned and withheld, none of which its physical carrier explains.", "layers": [ { "id": "content-and-encoding", "name": "Content and encoding", "description": "The content itself, its format and its language.", "findings": [ { "id": "content-and-format", "name": "Content, format and language", "description": "What a Golden Rule contains and in what form it is held.", "questions": [ { "id": "content-and-format-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the content of a Golden Rule, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the content of a Golden Rule, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "content-and-format-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the content of a Golden Rule is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "access-and-rights", "name": "Access, rights and retention", "description": "Who may read, copy or change it, and for how long it is kept.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-rules", "name": "Access rules and retention", "description": "The permissions attached to a Golden Rule and the period it survives.", "questions": [ { "id": "access-rules-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes access to a Golden Rule, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about access to a Golden Rule, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "access-rules-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once access to a Golden Rule is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "subject-and-method", "name": "Subject matter and method", "description": "What Golden Rule studies and how it establishes anything.", "rationale": "A field is identified by its questions and its methods, and those are what distinguish it from the fields next to it.", "layers": [ { "id": "subject", "name": "Subject matter", "description": "The questions it takes as its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "subject-record", "name": "Questions and objects of study", "description": "What it is about, stated so a neighbouring field can be told apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "subject-record-q01", "text": "What questions and objects does Golden Rule take as its own?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "subject-record-q02", "text": "Which questions does it share with a neighbouring field, and who claims them?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "method", "name": "Method and evidence", "description": "How claims are established and what counts as evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "method-record", "name": "Methods and standards of evidence", "description": "The methods used and what they are taken to establish.", "questions": [ { "id": "method-record-q01", "text": "By what methods does Golden Rule establish claims, and what counts as sufficient evidence?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "method-record-q02", "text": "What kind of claim can this field not settle, and where should an agent look instead?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "institutions-and-classification", "name": "Institutions and classification", "description": "Where Golden Rule is practised and how catalogues place it.", "rationale": "The institutional footprint is the evidence that a field exists as a field rather than as a topic.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutions", "name": "Institutional markers", "description": "Societies, journals, degrees and departments.", "findings": [ { "id": "institution-record", "name": "Bodies and venues", "description": "Where the field organises itself.", "questions": [ { "id": "institution-record-q01", "text": "Which societies, journals or degrees mark Golden Rule as an established field?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "institution-record-q02", "text": "What would show that it is emerging or dissolving rather than established?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification", "name": "Classification schemes", "description": "Where library and research classifications put it.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-record", "name": "Codes and their disagreements", "description": "The classification codes that place it, and where they differ.", "questions": [ { "id": "classification-record-q01", "text": "Which classification schemes place Golden Rule, under what codes?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "classification-record-q02", "text": "Where do those schemes disagree about its scope?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Golden Rule came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Golden Rule and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Golden Rule, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Golden Rule, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Golden Rule is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a Golden Rule is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Golden Rule, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Golden Rule, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Golden Rule is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 14, "questions": 38 } } } }