Justice, cooperation, and the "golden rule"
pp. 119-122
in: Rosaria Egidi (ed), In search of a new humanism, Berlin, Springer, 1999Abstract
In the last chapter of his book The Varieties of Goodness 1 dedicated to Justice, von Wright bases his analysis on the principle that he calls "The Golden Rule". He gives two somewhat different formulations of this principle (p. 201) which it is not possible to compare here. It will be sufficient for our purpose to refer to the first of those formulations which is also the better known: "Do to others what you want them to do to you, and do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you."