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    "Golden Rule Sign" that hung above the door of the employees' entrance to the Acme Sucker
    Rod Factory in Toledo, Ohio, 1913.

    The Golden Rule is the principle of treating others as one wants to be treated.


    Various expressions of this rule can be found in the tenets of most religions and
    creeds through the ages.[1] It can be considered an ethic of reciprocity in some
    religions, although different religions treat it differently.
    The maxim may appear as a positive or negative injunction governing conduct:

     Treat others as you would like others to treat you (positive or directive
    form)[1]
     Do not treat others in ways that you would not like to be treated
    (negative or prohibitive form)
     What you wish upon others, you wish upon yourself (empathetic or
    responsive form)
    The idea dates at least to the early Confucian times (551–479 BCE), according
    to Rushworth Kidder, who identifies the concept appearing prominently
    in Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism,
    and "the rest of the world's major religions".[2] As part of the 1993 "Declaration
    Toward a Global Ethic", 143 leaders of the world's major faiths endorsed the
    Golden Rule.[3][4] According to Greg M. Epstein, it is "a concept that essentially no
    religion misses entirely", but belief in God is not necessary to endorse it.[5] Simon
    Blackburn also states that the Golden Rule can be "found in some form in almost
    every ethical tradition".[6]

    Etymology[edit]
    The term "Golden Rule", or "Golden law", began to be used widely in the early
    17th century in Britain by Anglican theologians and preachers;[7] the earliest
    known usage is that of Anglicans Charles Gibbon and Thomas Jackson in 1604.[8]

    Ancient history[edit]
    Ancient Egypt[edit]
    Possibly the earliest affirmation of the maxim of reciprocity, reflecting the ancient
    Egyptian goddess Ma'at, appears in the story of "The Eloquent Peasant", which
    dates to the Middle Kingdom (c. 2040–1650 BCE): "Now this is the command:
    Do to the doer to make him do."[9][10] This proverb embodies the do ut des principle.
    [11]
     A Late Period (c. 664–323 BCE) papyrus contains an early negative affirmation
    of the Golden Rule: "That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to
    another."[12]
    Ancient India[edit]
    Sanskrit tradition[edit]
    In Mahābhārata, the ancient epic of India, there is a discourse in which sage
    Brihaspati tells the king Yudhishthira the following about dharma, a philosophical
    understanding of values and actions that lend good order to life:
    One should never do something to others that one would regard as an injury to
    one's own self. In brief, this is dharma. Anything else is succumbing to desire.

    — Mahābhārata 13.114.8 (Critical edition)[citation needed]


    The Mahābhārata is usually dated to the period between 400 BCE and 400 CE.[13][14]
    Tamil tradition[edit]
    In Chapter 32 in the Book of Virtue of the Tirukkuṛaḷ (c. 1st century BCE to 5th
    century CE), Valluvar says:
    Do not do to others what you know has hurt yourself.

    — Kural 316[15]
    Why does one hurt others knowing what it is to be hurt?

    — Kural 318[15]
    Furthermore, in verse 312, Valluvar says that it is the determination or code of the
    spotless (virtuous) not to do evil, even in return, to those who have cherished
    enmity and done them evil. According to him, the proper punishment to those
    who have done evil is to put them to shame by showing them kindness, in return
    and to forget both the evil and the good done on both sides (verse 314).[16]
    Ancient Greece[edit]
    The Golden Rule in its prohibitive (negative) form was a common principle
    in ancient Greek philosophy. Examples of the general concept include:

     "Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." – Thales[17] (c. 


    624 – c. 546 BCE)
     "What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself
    either." – Sextus the Pythagorean.[18] The oldest extant reference to
    Sextus is by Origen in the third century of the common era. [19]
     "Ideally, no one should touch my property or tamper with it, unless I
    have given him some sort of permission, and, if I am sensible I shall treat
    the property of others with the same respect." – Plato[20] (c. 420 – c. 347
    BCE)

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