Talk:Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration

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No criticism ?[edit]

No one criticized this declaration ? Just ignored it ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.205.142.75 (talk) 06:13, 26 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The following link is dead and was removed; I couldn't find a direct substitute:

Parliament of the World's Religions - Global Ethic Declaration

EmmetCaulfield (talk) 15:04, 10 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The Golden Rule and Hillel's Corollary[edit]

The Golden Rule about loving one's neighbor as oneself is a fine idea that many serious moralists would subscribe to including those listed here. Yet have any of them really tried to live in this way? To do so and to share in all ones worldly goods is that which only a saint can achieve. When the sage Hillel the Elder (as dual head of the Sanhedrin at about the year zero CE) was asked by a taunter to explain the Jewish Law or Torah "whilst standing on one leg", Hillel's partner in this leader's role had the taunter thrown out. But Hillel was more tolerant and proclaimed: "What is hateful to yourself, do not do it to your neighbor--the rest is commentary, now go and study (it)."

This principle of not causing offense is a great improvement on the original Golden Rule, although it is implied by it but not regularly stated. My point being that it is far more practical a way to behave in an ethical way, without having to be like a saint. For example, every time we make an journey by a petroleum-powered car, when could walk, we are polluting the air and causing offense of an unnecessary kind. On matters as simple as this we should set ourselves standards according to Hillel which are seemingly outside of the basis of the Golden Rule as it is normally understood. Therefore this principle should be used to replace the first of the list of ethical rules given in the original article. Macrocompassion (talk) 09:24, 14 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Culture Award of German Freemasons[edit]

The related notice could be directly added to the main article Hans Küng, but it concerns specifically his foundation of the Global Ethic Foundation. So far, the current WP article seems to be the most pertaining to that content. The source is provided by the German website kath.net/, while a translation into English is available in freemasonrywatch.org. The part related to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church can be moved in the homonym article.Theologian81sp (talk) 11:43, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]