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GOLDEN RULE

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 210 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOLDEN See also:RULE , the See also:term applied in all See also:European See also:languages to the rule of conduct laid down in the New Testament (See also:Matthew vii. 12 and See also:Luke vi. 31), " whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the See also:law and the prophets." This principle has often been stated as the fundamental See also:precept of social morality. It is sometimes put negatively or passively, " do not that to another which See also:thou wouldst not have done to thyself " (cf. See also:Hobbes, See also:Leviathan, xv. 79, xvii. 85), but it should be observed that in this See also:form it implies merely abstention from evil doing. In either form the precept in See also:ordinary application is See also:part of a hedonistic See also:system of See also:ethics, the criterion of See also:action being strictly utilitarian in See also:character. See H. See also:Sidgwick, See also:History of Ethics '(5th ed., 1902), p. 167 ; See also:James See also:Seth, Ethical Principles, p. 97 See also:foil.

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