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The ten commandments as benchmark and foundation applies to many common situations.
by Datagenerator 5y ago
The ten commandments as benchmark and foundation applies to many common situations.
- WalterBright 5y agoThe Ten Commandments are not a list of rights. It doesn't even say you have the right to not be a slave.
- ben_w 5y agoThere are at least 8 ways to divide up the “ten commandments” passages in Exodus and Deuteronomy into a total of 14 commandments, the Quran has a different set (not being a religious scholar I can’t meaningfully assert how different, given linguistic drift and translation challenges). Bushido (or the form of it on Wikipedia) has a fairly different and also interesting set. Anton LaVey (Church of Satan) has an interesting, albeit stereotypically American, eleven. The philosophers in this list seem to focus on commandments of rationality more than morality, but that’s not something I find hugely surprising: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_the_Ten_Commandments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternatives_to_the_Ten_Comman...
- dredmorbius 5y agoThe majority of the commandments are not rights but restrictions, the "thou shall not"s. Even the positively-phrased commandments are obligations ("honour thy father and mother..."). These are not rights.