The Golden Rule
The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions
- 192 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
The Golden Rule: treat others as you would like to be treated. This ethical dictum is a part of most of the world's religions and has been considered by numerous religious figures and philosophers over the centuries. This new collection contains specially commissioned essays which take a fresh look at this guiding principle from a comparative perspective. Participants examine the formulation and significance of the Golden Rule in the world's major religions by applying four questions to the tradition they consider: What does it say? What does it mean? How does it work? How does it matter? Freshly examining the Golden Rule in broad comparative context provides a fascinating account of its uses and meaning, and allows us to assess if, how and why it matters in human cultures and societies.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Parsing Reciprocity: Questions for the Golden Rule
- 2. The Golden Rule in Ancient Israelite Scripture
- 3. Alternatives to the Golden Rule: Social Reciprocity and Altruism in Early Archaic Greece
- 4. The Golden Rule in Greco-Roman Religion and Philosophy
- 5. The Golden Rule in Classical Judaism
- 6. The Golden Rule in Zoroastrianism
- 7. Jesus, the Golden Rule, and Its Application
- 8. The Golden Rule as the Law of Nature, from Origen to Martin Luther
- 9. The Golden Rule in Islam
- 10. The Formulation and Significance of the Golden Rule in Buddhism [I]
- 11. The Golden Rule in Buddhism [II]
- 12. A Hindu Golden Rule, in Context
- 13. The Golden Rule in Confucianism
- 14. “Wired for Reciprocity”: Some Concluding Reflections
- Bibliography
- Index