"The Buddhist Golden Rule Towards De-religionism: Self and no-self from Space and Natural Law"

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-140
Author(s):  
Haeyoung Won
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Golden Rule

How “Trivial” is the Golden Rule in Patristic Ethics?

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Johannes Aakjær Steenbuch
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Golden Rule ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Relationship With God ◽  
Regulative Principle ◽  
Philosophical Framework ◽  
Generally True

In patristic ethics there are many differing formulations of the Golden Rule (“do unto others…”), the greatest difference being perhaps that between the negative and the positive version. The Golden Rule was typically considered a matter of natural law, but it is rarely considered the exclusive principle to be applied in practice. Often it was considered an instrument for recognizing generally true principles, such as those of the second table of the Decalogue, or, in Augustine, to direct attention to a “law of the heart.” While Chrysostom saw it solely as a regulative principle for horizontal relationships between human beings, Augustine believed it to regulate the believer’s relationship with God as well. The rule was not, in patristic ethics, an abstract philosophical principle, but something that structured not only particular actions or types of actions, but practices in a more contextual sense. For these reasons the Golden Rule should, in patristic ethics, always be understood against the background of a broader context of values. Though the Golden Rule may seem to express a universal ethics, its meanings and functions depend on the larger moral-philosophical framework.

scholarly journals FROM NATURAL LAW TO THE GOLDEN RULE

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Damiano Simoncelli
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
Natural Law ◽  
Golden Rule ◽  
Human Biology ◽  
Cultural Boundaries ◽  
Human Good

These days, the Thomistic account of natural law is the object of renewed interest and criticisms. A number of objections are usually lodged against the idea of a human nature and a shared human good, in that it might seem that these ideas are unquestionably culturally related and that cultural boundaries cannot be crossed. At the same time, the concepts of ‘human nature’ and ‘natural law’ are often misunderstood to be related to human biology only. To overcome these issues, this paper aims to reinterpret the Thomistic doctrine of natural law as a form of the golden rule (‘Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you’; ‘Do unto others as you would have them do unto you’).

The Golden Rule and Natural Law

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-430
Author(s):  
Ralph McInerny ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Law ◽  
Golden Rule
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