ETHICAL HERMENEUTICS GUIDEDBY THE GOLDEN RULE AND THECOPPER RULE;
DEFENSE OF APLATINUM RULE OF MORALITY
Keywords:
Hermeneutics, Ethics, Golden Rule, Copper Rule, Platinum Rule, Gadamer, Yong HuangAbstract
In this article I follow arguing for a face of ethical
hermeneutics related to the vision and posture of those who understand the
other, be it a person, be it culture, be it nature. This project was developed
based on Hans-Georg Gadamer. To carry out this scope, I initially made
explicit his criticism of modern rationality – which reifies the other – as well
as his recommendation to treat them as another being. Next, I substantiate the
proposal of an ‘ Hermeneuticus I’ that understands the other under the Kantian
imperative that, namely, says ‘not to treat the other as an object, but as an end in
themselves’ and also guided by the Golden Rule of morality, according to which
one must ‘treat others as he/she would like to be treated themselves’. In this
article, I will incorporate – within the project of an ethical hermeneutics – the
proposal of a Copper Rule of morals as developed by Yong Huang, according
to which we must understand and ‘treat the other as the other would like to be
treated’, that is, from their expectation as recipient and from their respective
ethos embodied in the formulation “do unto others as they would have you do
unto them”. Having done that, I propose the interweaving of both in what I
call the Platinum Rule where the ‘self treats the other as the self would like to
be treated’ and, at the same time, ‘treats the other as the other would like to
be treated’.
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