 Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.  Ethical Addresses - Page 681904Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chamblet Adams - 1884 - 256 pages
...neighbor which you would take amiss if he did it to you." Confucius, the Chinese sage, 500 BC, said : " What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others." To one who has been accustomed to regard Jesus as the author of our present morality, it is instructive... | |
 | Benjamin Couch Henry - 1885 - 522 pages
...origin. The Golden Rule enunciated in its negative form was called forth by the question of Tsze-Kung : " Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all of one's life ? " To which the sage replied, " Is not reciprocity such a word ? Do not unto others... | |
 | Benjamin Couch Henry - 1885 - 524 pages
...origin. The Golden Rule enunciated in its negative form was called forth by the question of Tsze-Kung: " Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all of one's life? " To which the sage replied, "Is not reciprocity such a word? Do not unto others what... | |
 | 1886 - 580 pages
...Legge's work on " Chinese Classics " Book xv, Sec. 22, says : " Tsze-kung asked Kong-fu-tse, saying, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice...do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.' " Marcenus RK Wright published in, 1870, the "Life, Moral Aphorisms, and Terseological Teachings of... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1886 - 188 pages
...Law. It * Also in the Confucian Analects (c. 400 BC), where we read that: "Tsze-kung asked, saying, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice...do not want done to yourself, do not do to others" (Book xv. 23. Cf. v. 1 1) ; and in the Doctrine of the Mean (chap. XIII. 3, 4), attributed to the grandson... | |
 | Charles Taylor - 1886 - 186 pages
...Law. It * Also in the Confucian Analects (c. 400 BC), where we read that: "Tsze-kung asked, saying, Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life ? The Master said, I Is not Reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others" (Book... | |
 | 1886 - 540 pages
...something to be marveled at. Johnson founds his statement on the following passage in the Analects : " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." This maxim occurs twice in the Analects ; but is this in any sense, Christ's Golden Rule ? 15 " All... | |
 | Isaac Taylor Headland - 1886 - 200 pages
...willingly." " Have pity for orphans, and show compassion for widows." " Wives, respect your husbands." " What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others." Each of these sentences at once suggests to our mind its counterpart in our Biblical teachings. The... | |
 | Hampden C. DuBose - 1886 - 470 pages
...form. It is recorded twice, " What I do not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men ; " " What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Our Lord commands men to do what they judge is right and good ; Confucius forbids doing what we esteem... | |
 | James Legge - 1887 - 356 pages
...for it. The maxim occurs also twice in the Analects. In Book XV. xxiii., Tsze-kung asks if there be one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, and is answered, " Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself do not do... | |
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