Golden_Rule

Golden Rule Robert MacIver was a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Columbia University. His most known works are; Academic freedom in Our Time and Community: A social Study. The article in which we were assigned to read, MacIver justifies the golden rule; he does not use it to define good or evil, moral or immoral. He justifies it by showing us (the reader) how other forms of ethical rule can be and are unjust. How can one abide by one set of beliefs and expect everyone else to abide by the same. We live in a world where religions collide, races segregate themselves (as well as others), economics corrupt people at both ends of the spectrum, as well as the middle class. MacIver makes it clear that ones beliefs are not universal and not everyone would willingly abide by others beliefs. If one was to make their beliefs universal, MacIver says that this would only result in beliefs that are falsely tyrannous. We all have different definitions of the word “good”; some define is as pleasure, others happiness, some self fulfillment while…even some define good as the act of looking away from ones self. It is stated that even others, one, beliefs, rule, maciver, should, people, golden, judge, treat, ones, universal, themselves, rights, must, example, even, world, truth, self, picture, onto, make, himself, good, freedom, everyone, ethical, different, define, criminal, change, being, because, abide,