Golden Rule
Essays

Communicating effectively with others involves some fairly straightforward techniques that are equally valid in any setting rather than the complex multidimensional conceptualizations that are being advanced in the literature today. To gain some fresh insights in this area, this paper provides a review of the relevant peer-reviewed and scholarly literature concerning constraints to cross-cultural communications and how these can be overcome by using some common sense and intuition. A summary of the research and important findings are presented in the paper's conclusion.

The paper seeks to provide a solution to the concern on whether the Golden Rule should be abandoned in light of the abandonment of interpersonal comparability. The articles examine this question on the basis that the principle enjoins people to consult their own preferences when doing unto others. The evaluation has been conducted based on this idea of comparability as presented in Hayek's The Constitution of Liberty.

¶ … Metaphysics of Morals" philosopher Immanuel Kant famously argues that his Categorical Imperative is fundamentally different, and superior to the greatly flawed Golden Rule. Kant asserts that the Categorical…