To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (251534 ) 5/30/2014 7:35:31 PM From: epicure Read Replies (3) | Respond to So much can be solved by just looking things up....Code of Hammurabi (1780 BC) [10] dealt with the reciprocity of the Lex talionis in ways such as limiting retribution, as they did concepts of retribution (literally "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth").Golden Rule existed among all the major philosophical schools of Ancient China : Mohism , Taoism , and Confucianism . Examples of the concept include:"Zi Gong asked, saying, "Is there one word that may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not reciprocity such a word?" – Confucius [11] [12] "Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself." – Confucius [13] "If people regarded other people's families in the same way that they regard their own, who then would incite their own family to attack that of another? For one would do for others as one would do for oneself." – Mozi "The sage has no interest of his own, but takes the interests of the people as his own. He is kind to the kind; he is also kind to the unkind: for Virtue is kind. He is faithful to the faithful; he is also faithful to the unfaithful: for Virtue is faithful." – Laozi [14] "Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss." – Laozi [15] Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant , which dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040–1650 BC): "Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you." [16] [ discuss ] An example from a Late Period (c. 664 BC – 323 BC) papyrus: "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another." [17] ancient Greek philosophy . Examples of the general concept include:"Do not do to your neighbor what you would take ill from him." – Pittacus [18] (c. 640 – 568 BC) "Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." – Thales [19] (c. 624 BC – c. 546 BC) "What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either. " – Sextus the Pythagorean . [20] The oldest extant reference to Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era. [21] "Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you." – Isocrates [22] (436–338 BC) "What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others." – Epictetus [23] "It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly (agreeing 'neither to harm nor be harmed'), [24] and it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life." – Epicurus [25] "...it has been shown that to injure anyone is never just anywhere." – Socrates , in Plato 's Republic . Plato is the first person known to have said this. [26] Seneca , maybe following Publilius Syrus , [27] told "ab alio expectes alteri quod feceris " ("expect from others what you did to them") [28] [29] and "non est quod credas quemquam fieri aliena infelicitate felicem " ("it is not so, as you might believe, that one is made happy through the unhappiness of others"). [30] [31]
