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: 1997/07/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 255377022 References: <33B014E3.3343@no.such.com> <5oqp9s$7vj$1@news.nyu.edu> <5p9iu3$fjp@delphi.cs.ucla.edu> <33BA8326.6044@does.not.exist.com> Organization: Free Software Foundation, Cambridge, MA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-07-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Wes Groleau writes: > The "Golden Rule" comes with its own interpretation. 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." He went on to clarify "neighbor" and He and His > followers have gone into great detail on the nature of love (which, > by the way, differs considerably from the popular understanding in > that it has very little to do with "feeling"). The Golden Rule is "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". This rule is NOT identified by Jesus as the "summary of the law" as you erroneously seem to say. Jesus never said that the Golden Rule was some universal ethical principle. (But other people have said that, and Kant [and I] disagree with them.) The "summary of the law" is essentially "love God and love your neighbor as yourself". "Love your neighbor as yourself" is not the same thing as "do unto others as you would have them do to you". Thomas