Taoist Laozi says: "To those who are good to me, I am good and to those who are not good to me, I am also good and thus all get to receive good." (Tao Te Ching 49) A later work says: "Regard your neighbor's gain as your gain and your neighbor's loss as your loss." (T'ai-Shang Kan-Ying P'ien) Jainism, a religion of India that promotes non-violence, compassion, and the sacredness of life, teaches the golden rule: "A monk should treat all beings as he himself would be treated." (Jaina Sutras, Sutrakritanga, bk. 485 BC said something similar (Histories 7.136). 440 BC, in his Histories 3.142): "What I condemn in another I will, if I may, avoid myself." Xerxes of Persia c. Maeandrius of Samos (in Greece), taking over from an evil tyrant, says (according to the historian Herodotus c. His golden rule says: "There is nothing dearer to man than himself therefore, as it is the same thing that is dear to you and to others, hurt not others with what pains yourself" (Dhammapada, Northern Canon, 5:18).Ĭonfucius sums up his teaching as: "Don't do to others what you don't want them to do to you." (Analects 15:23) 225 AD): "By never doing ourselves what we blame in others." A similar saying is attributed to Thales's contemporary, Pittacus of Mytilene.īuddha in India teaches compassion and shunning unhealthy desires. I know what is fair and right."įirst philosopher Thales, when asked how to live virtuously, reportedly replies (according to the unreliable Diogenes Laertius c. In Homer's Odyssey, goddess Calypso tells Odysseus: "I'll be as careful for you as I'd be for myself in like need. The Jewish Bible has golden-rule like passages, including: "Don't oppress a foreigner, for you well know how it feels to be a foreigner, since you were foreigners yourselves in the land of Egypt" (Exodus 23:9) and "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Leviticus 19:18). Small, genetically similar clans who use the golden rule to promote cooperation and sharing have a better chance to survive.Įgypt's "Eloquent peasant" story has been said to have the earliest known golden-rule saying: "Do to the doer to cause that he do." But the translation is disputed and it takes much stretching to see this as the golden rule. Humans find that cooperative hunting works better. He has been writing and researching in the Golden Rule field for 45 years. A professor of philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio (USA), Gensler is one of the top Golden Rule scholars in the world. Harry Gensler S.J., is used here with permission. This adapted chronological history of the Golden Rule, authored by Rev.
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