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The Golden Rule

This work offers a comprehensive survey of the history of the golden rule, "Do unto others as you want others to do unto you". It traces the rule's history in contexts as diverse as the writings of Confucius and the Greek philosophers, the Bible, modern theology and philosophy, and the American "self-help" context. It concludes by offering its own synthesis of these varied understandings.

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  • "This work offers a comprehensive survey of the history of the golden rule, "Do unto others as you want others to do unto you". It traces the rule's history in contexts as diverse as the writings of Confucius and the Greek philosophers, the Bible, modern theology and philosophy, and the American "self-help" context. It concludes by offering its own synthesis of these varied understandings."@en
  • "This work offers a survey of the history of the rule, "Do unto others as you want others to do unto you". It traces the rule's history in contexts as diverse as the writings of Confucius and the Greek philosophers, the Bible, modern theology and philosophy, and the American "self-help" context."@en
  • "The golden rule, "Do to others as you want others to do to you," is widely assumed to have a single, obvious meaning, shared by virtually all the world's religions and by secular ethics as well. Wattles surveys the diverse historical contexts of the golden rule to show how it acquires new meaning from eacg of the cultural struggles in which the rule has functioned. He explores the rule taught by Confucius, emerging in Plato and Aristotle, and used in classical Jewish literature and the New Testament. He then moves on to consider medieval, Reformation, and modern theological and philosophical responses and objections to the rule. In addition, Wattles relayes how some early twentieth-century American leaders put the rule into practice and how various psychological theories interpret the imaginative role reversal the rule suggests. Wattles concludes by offering his own synthesis of these interpretations, showing how the rule symbolize a contemporary "ethics of relationships" on several levels of meaning. Emotionally, the rule counsels consideration for others' feelings by asking that you "place yourself in the other person's shoes." Intellectually, it activates moral thinking about what is fair. Spiritually, it makes its appeal as "the principle of the practice of the family of God.""

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  • "Comparative studies"
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  • "Livre électronique (Descripteur de forme)"
  • "Ressources Internet"
  • "Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme)"
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