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Single Idea 5356
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / B. Contract Ethics / 2. Golden Rule
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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]:
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Do not do to others what you would not desire yourself
[Kongzi (Confucius)]
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If people regarded other states as they did their own, they would never attack them
[Mozi]
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The Torah just says: do not do to your neighbour what is hateful to you
[Hillel the Elder]
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Treat others as you would have them treat you
[Jesus]
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For Hobbes the Golden Rule concerns not doing things, whereas Jesus encourages active love
[Hobbes, by Flanagan]
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We can't want everyone to have more than their share, so a further standard is needed
[Leibniz]
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The Golden Rule is accepted everywhere, and gives a fixed target for morality
[Voltaire]
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The better Golden Rule is 'do good for yourself without harming others'
[Rousseau]
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We shouldn't do to others what would be a wrong to us in similar circumstances
[Reid]
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The 'golden rule' cannot be a universal law as it implies no duties
[Kant]
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If you feel to others as they feel to themselves, you must hate a self-hater
[Nietzsche]
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The Golden Rule prohibits harmful actions, with the premise that actions will be requited
[Nietzsche]
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The categorical imperative is not the Golden Rule, which concerns contingent desires
[Sandel]
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Universal moral judgements imply the Golden Rule ('do as you would be done by')
[Hooker,B]
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