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Article: The Golden Rule.(Review) (book review)
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- Philosophy East and West
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- April 1, 1999
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The Golden Rule. By Jeffrey Wattles. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. Pp. viii + 257.
At the Second Centennial celebration of the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago in 1993, the Parliament's Council issued a "Declaration of a Global Ethic" in which it presented a statement of the Golden Rule: "We must treat others as we wish others to treat us." The Golden Rule has, in fact, been advocated in various versions by most of the world's religions for a very long time--and yet people have long found it difficult to interpret. Jeffrey Wattles, in his book The Golden Rule, has effectively summarized the problem: the Rule has been accused of ...