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See also:GOLDEN See also:RULE
, the See also:term applied in all See also:European See also:languages to the See also:rule of conduct laid down in the New Testament (See also:Matthew vii
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12 and See also:Luke vi
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31), " whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them, for this is the See also:law and the prophets." This principle has often been stated as the fundamental See also:precept of social morality
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It is sometimes put negatively or passively, " do not that to another which See also:thou wouldst not have done to thyself " (cf
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See also:Hobbes, See also:Leviathan, xv
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79, xvii
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85), but it should be observed that in this See also:form it implies merely abstention from evil doing
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In either form the precept in See also:ordinary application is See also:part of a hedonistic See also:system of See also:ethics, the criterion of See also:action being strictly utilitarian in See also:character
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See H
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See also:Sidgwick, See also:History of Ethics '(5th ed., 1902), p
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167 ; See also:
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