Episode 3: Chapter 2 – Universal… – Part 1
What could be considered versions of this claim are universal across cultures:
• Common Sense throughout time: “Treat people the way you’d like to be
treated.”
• Hinduism: 3200 BC, from the Hitopadesa: “One should always treat
others as they themselves wish to be treated.”
• Judaism: 1300 BC, from the Old Testament, Leviticus 19:18: “Thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself.”
• Zoroastrianism: 600 BC, from the Shastna-shayast 13:29: “Whatever is
disagreeable to yourself, do not do unto others.”
• Buddhism: 560 BC from the Udanavarga 5:18: “Hurt not others with that
which pains yourself.”
• Confucianism: 557 BC, from the Analects 15:23: “What you do not want
done to yourself, do not do to others.”
• Christianity: 30 AD, from the Bible – King James Version, Matthew
22:39, Jesus said: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” And going even further, in John 13:33 Jesus said: “A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you.”
• Islam: 632 AD, from the hadith Kitab al-Kafi, vol. 2, p. 146 – “As you would have people do to you, do to them; and what you dislike to be done to you, don’t do to them.”
This merely brings us closer to what I have come to term the social imperative….
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