Monday, 12 May 2014

Golden Rule



Put simply, the Golden Rule is a phrase worded along the lines of the following:
Do unto others as you would be done by
I’ve heard quite a few people attribute this to Christ, but it goes back further in Christianity, and, I understand, pops up a wide range of religions – as an example, consider the Wiccan Rede.
Critics like to point out the flaws in this guide (thereby being guilty of extremism, inappropriate argument or ‘throwing the baby out with bathwater’, in many cases – in my view), and, whilst it is by no means perfect, it’s not a bad starting point for working out a code of ethics that covers most - or at least many - situations in life. Also, the “Global Ethic” movement has connections to the concept of ‘the Golden Rule’ - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towards_a_Global_Ethic:_An_Initial_Declaration, http://www.religioustolerance.org/parliame.htm and http://www.weltethos.org/index-en.php.

As of the time this definition was written, I’ve touched on this idea in the following posts:
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