23 Feb 2017

Ethics Project
I've been interested for a long time in the implications of the two principal statements of the Ethic of Reciprocity. The Golden Rule is usually stated as: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." In western culture it is usually said to be based on the injunction in Leviticus 19:18: (and again in verse 34) "...Love your neighbor as yourself..." Or in the Chris...
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13 Feb 2017

Bones of Israel, Judaic Topics
Introduction There are some moments in time that are so powerful, so consequential, that they seem to crystallize, to become matter, to ossify. Time becomes bone. Seven such bone-like moments (and only seven) are found in the Hebrew Bible when it is read in the Hebrew. Those moments are so consequential in human history and in the history of the Jewish people that they are described in...
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14 Jan 2017

Ethics Project
Wattles’ wonderful book on the Golden Rule, published in 1996 by the Oxford University Press, is the product of ten years of research stimulated by his work on the subject for a 1985 Stanford University Golden Rule seminar. Harry J. Gensler, the noted Golden Rule scholar, termed Wattles' book "the first scholarly book on the GR in English since the 17th century". The bulk of the bo...
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