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Showing posts with label Golden Rule. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Golden Rule. Show all posts
Thursday, May 20, 2010

By Nature Equal: How Are Men Created Equal? Identifying the Host Property, Part 2

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LATERALITY IS A SIGNIFICANT CRITERION of human equality . To repeat with what we ended with in our previous blog posting, Coons and Brennan...
Sunday, May 16, 2010

Gratian and the Natural Law: Concordance and Discordance in the Natural Law, Part 1

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GRATIAN IS ONE OF THOSE CHARACTERS whose biography is wholly out of whack with his contribution to history. The fact is that we know precio...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Golden Rule in Immanuel Kant: The Golden Rule But a Trivial Footnote

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IMMANUEL KANT WAS ROUSED, HE SAYS, from his "dogmatic slumber" ( dogmatischen Schlummer ) through the reading of Hume. Whatever a...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Gottfried Leibniz on the Golden Rule: Faire le Toure de la Chose

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THE POLYMATH GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) IS A REMARKABLE FIGURE in anyone's book: be it his mathematics, philosophy, logic, physics, b...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Golden Rule in John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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IT IS JOHN LOCKE IN HIS AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING that first initiates the Western "critique" of the Golden Rule acc...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Golden Rule in Thomas Hobbes

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THE GOLDEN RULE WAS SOILED by the philosophers and political thinkers of the of the Enlightenment. We can start with Thomas Hobbes (1588-16...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Golden Rule in African Proverbs

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PROVERBS ARE AN IMPORTANT PART OF YORUBA CULTURE. The Yoruba tribe live in Western Nigeria, although they may also be found in the eastern R...
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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Golden Rule in Ancient Egypt

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THE OLDEST MENTION OF THE GOLDEN RULE is perhaps found in the Ancient Egyptian story about justice, the story called the Eloquent Peasant. I...
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Golden Rule in the Medieval Church, Part 5

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ST. THOMAS INVOKES THE GOLDEN RULE in his Summa Theologiae , specifically in the first part of the second part, in Question No. 99, where he...