The Golden Rule and George Bernard Shaw | Belief and the Environment:
One hears from time to time that George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) made certain famous statements about the Golden Rule. It may be as well to recall the context in which these statements occurred.
Shaw’s play Man and Superman has as its central figure the bachelor John (‘Jack’) Tanner, who has two major characteristics: he advocates an unconventional view of life and he does not want to marry Ann Whitefield.
In neither respect is he very successful: others cling to their conventional views, and he marries Ann.
There is no doubt that Shaw was using John Tanner to express some of his own views. The self-opinionated bachelor is a mouthpiece for Shaw’s refusal to accept convention.
In Shaw’s judgment, conventional views are frequently illogical, and if there is a good element in them it is often aimed at in a wrong-headed way.
John Tanner, M.I.R.C. (Member of the Idle Rich Class), as a man of conviction wrote a book setting out his ideas.
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