Axiom of equity
The axiom of equity was proposed by Samuel Clarke, an English philosopher, in the spirit of the ethic of reciprocity.
In his book A Discourse Concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation, Clarke wrote:
{{quote|Whatever I judge reasonable or unreasonable for another to do to me; that, by the same judgment, I declare reasonable or unreasonable, that I in the like case should do for him.}}
Hastings Rashdall, in his 1907 book The Theory of Good and Evil, restated the axiom as:
{{quote|One man's good is of as much intrinsic worth as the like good of another.}}
References
- Liberal Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics Matti Hayry, 1994
- [http://www.ditext.com/frankena/ethics.html Ethics (second edition)] by William K. Frankena, 1973
- [http://fair-use.org/hastings-rashdall/the-theory-of-good-and-evil/bk1ch6s3 The Theory of Good and Evil] by Hastings Rashdall, 1907.
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