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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor" to mean:
{ 1 } - Always act to maximize the balance of pleasure over pain for all humanity.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others, and do this for their sake.
{ 4 } - Follow the golden rule toward others.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor" to mean:
{ 1 } - Always act to maximize the balance of pleasure over pain for all humanity.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others, and do this for their sake.
{ 4 } - Follow the golden rule toward others.
"Love your neighbor" is less specific in its content than utilitarianism and is compatible with nonutilitarian theories. But it's more specific in its motivation; you might follow utilitarianism out of habit or social approval -- and not out of genuine love and concern for others.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor" to mean:
{ 1 } - Always act to maximize the balance of pleasure over pain for all humanity.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others, and do this for their sake.
{ 4 } - Follow the golden rule toward others.
You can't literally be a friend to everyone. "Love your neighbor" is about how to treat our friends -- as well as how to treat strangers and acquaintances.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor" to mean:
{ 1 } - Always act to maximize the balance of pleasure over pain for all humanity.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others, and do this for their sake.
{ 4 } - Follow the golden rule toward others.
This includes benevolence and non-maleficence toward others: you try to do good and not harm to them.
It also includes a specific motivation for doing this: you act out of inherent concern for others, as opposed to acting just from habit or social approval or self-interest.
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Formal ethics takes "Love your neighbor" to mean:
{ 1 } - Always act to maximize the balance of pleasure over pain for all humanity.
{ 2 } - Be a friend to everyone.
{ 3 } - Seek to do good and not harm to others, and do this for their sake.
{ 4 } - Follow the golden rule toward others.
GR and the love norm are more complementary than equivalent. GR doesn't specify a motivation and could be followed out of self-interest or fear of punishment; the highest motivation is to follow GR out of love (inherent concern) for others. And GR provides a workable method to operationalize the vague idea of "loving your neighbor": we develop a factual and empathetic understanding of the other person, put ourselves in the place of the other, and ask how we desire that we be treated in that situation.
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