Golden Rule One early use of the word golden in English is "most excellent, important, or precious." With reference to rules or precepts it was used to mean "of inestimable value," and the expression "the golden...

The ethic of reciprocity or "The Golden Rule" is a fundamental moral principle which simply means "treat others as you would like to be treated." It is arguably the most essential basis for the modern concept of human rights. Principal philosophers and...

It is not always a bad thing for a degree of social coercion to be exercised on the young -- indeed modern industrial society is the only one in which the post-puberty young are not subjected to enormous disciplinary pressures to conform to social...

LET me make this clear from the start: Hawthorne does not prefigure Levinas, nor was Levinas significantly influenced by Hawthorne. I make no explicit links between the two writers. This essay is merely a parable in the Greek sense of parablos--to place side-by-side....