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The Golden Rule

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 July 2009

Brad Hooker
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Abstract

Should you always do unto others as you would have them do unto you? Brad Hooker investigates a seemingly plausible-looking moral principle: the Golden Rule.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 4 , Issue 10 , Summer 2005 , pp. 25 - 29
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2005

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Notes

1 Sidgwick, Henry, Methods of Ethics, 7th edition, 1907, p. 308.Google Scholar

2 Quoted by Locke, Don in his ‘The Principle of Equal Interests,’ Philosophical Review, 1981.Google Scholar

3 This example comes from Olen, Jeffrey and Barry, Vincent, Applying Ethics, Wadsworth Publishers, 1985, p. 9.Google Scholar

4 Sidgwick, p. 380.