From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG) Subject: Re: Rand Kant Hegel with Aristotle ? Date: 1997/07/09 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255782907 References: <33BA8326.6044@does.not.exist.com> <5pu6k0$mtk@top.mitre.org> Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: mfb@mbunix.mitre.org (Michael F Brenner) writes: > > ... The original > > formulation of "So in everything, do to others what you would have > > them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." > > was by Jesus Christ who also said that "all the law and the prophets" > > depend on two commandments, of which the second is "Love your neighbor > > as yourself."... > An earlier reference is the following: > (Leviticus 19:18) Thou shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge > against people but thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself What's new with Jesus is not this command, 'tis true. (And I didn't say otherwise.) What was new was the idea that this (along with "love God") served as a summary of the law. Lev. 19:18 is one command mixed in with jillions of others and given no special status. What's also new with Jesus is the extension of "neighbor" to be all human beings. Thomas