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Full Idea
What is hateful to you, do not unto your neighbour: this is the entire Torah. All the rest is commentary - go and study it.
Clarification
The Torah is the collection of early Jewish scriptures
Gist of Idea
The Torah just says: do not do to your neighbour what is hateful to you
Source
Hillel the Elder (reports [c.10]), quoted by Paul Johnson - The History of the Jews Pt II
Book Ref
Johnson,Paul: 'A History of the Jews' [Phoenix 1993], p.127
A Reaction
Johnson suggests that this idea, of stripping everything from the Torah except its basic morality, was passed on to Jesus by Hillel. Suppose you hate Arsenal, but your neighbour supports them, and they just won the European Cup? What should you do?
| 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] |