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Single Idea 5356

[filed under theme 23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule ]

Full Idea

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, so ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

Gist of Idea

Treat others as you would have them treat you

Source

Jesus (reports [c.32]), quoted by St Matthew - 01: Gospel of St Matthew 07.12

Book Ref

'The Bible', ed/tr. the Church [Collins 1950], p.460

A Reaction

A problem which probably didn't occur to Jesus and the prophets is that of masochists. Personally I like buying philosophy books, but most people have no such desire. The Rule needs restricting to the basics of pleasure and pain.

The 14 ideas with the same theme [treat others as you would like to be treated]:

7360 Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself [Kongzi (Confucius)]
23394 If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them [Mozi]
7350 The Torah just says: do not do to your neighbour what is hateful to you [Hillel the Elder]
5356 Treat others as you would have them treat you [Jesus]
5337 For Hobbes the Golden Rule concerns not doing things, whereas Jesus encourages active love [Hobbes, by Flanagan]
12934 We can't want everyone to have more than their share, so a further standard is needed [Leibniz]
7844 The Golden Rule is accepted everywhere, and gives a fixed target for morality [Voltaire]
19768 The better Golden Rule is 'do good for yourself without harming others' [Rousseau]
23675 We shouldn't do to others what would be a wrong to us in similar circumstances [Reid]
3733 The 'golden rule' cannot be a universal law as it implies no duties [Kant]
20246 If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater [Nietzsche]
4560 The Golden Rule prohibits harmful actions, with the premise that actions will be requited [Nietzsche]
21030 The categorical imperative is not the Golden Rule, which concerns contingent desires [Sandel]
2856 Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by') [Hooker,B]