Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781138230460 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str.

Curtis Hutt; Halla Kim; Berel Dov Learner

Opis

This book explores some of the key components of, and connections between, religious and philosophical treatment of ethical notions and problems and the positions of their historical precedents and successors. This allows for a better understanding of Jewish ethics as a distinctive position, the key influences upon it and major developments within it, and its contribution to subsequent developments and debates (metaphysical, historical, methodological, and socio-political).

Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Rabbinics  1. Angels versus Humans in the Moral Psychology of R. Meir Simhah Ha-Kohen of Dvinsk, Berel Dov Lerner  2. Angels, Humans, and the Struggle For Moral Excellence in the Writings of Meir Simḥah of Dvinsk and Simḥah Zissel of Kelm, Geoggrey Claussen  3. Wise Hukkim and the Byzantine Sermonic Ideology of a Divine Fiat, Elisha S. Ancselovits   Part 2: Philosophy 4. Is Maimonides a Moral Relativist? Lenn E. Goodman  5. Spinoza’s Baffling View of Biblical Morality, Michah Gottlieb  6. Hermann Cohen on the Concept of Law in Ethics, Halla Kim  7. Expressions of Caring: Relational Virtues in Buber’s Ethics, Laura Grams  8. Cosmopolitan Tolerance and Asymmetrical Ethics: Adorno, Levinas, Derrida, Eric S. Nelson  Part 3: Contemporary Challenges  9. Textual Morality: On the Neglect of Ritual in Applied Jewish Ethics, Ari Schick  10. A Critical Reading of American-Liberal Jewish Engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yakir Englander  11. Afro-Jewish Ethics? Lewis Gordon  12. Jewish History and Memory: Historiographical Ethics after Yerushalmi’s Zakhor, Curtis Hutt