Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics.
Hutt, Curtis.
Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (260 pages) - Routledge Jewish Studies Series . - Routledge Jewish Studies Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I Rabbinics -- 1 Angels vs. humans in the moral psychology of R. Meir Simhah Ha-Kohen of Dvinsk -- 2 Angels, humans, and the struggle for moral excellence in the writings of Meir Simhah of Dvinsk and Simhah Zissel of Kelm -- 3 Wise hukkim and the Byzantine sermonic ideology of a Divine fiat -- PART II Philosophy -- 4 Is Maimonides a moral relativist? -- 5 Spinoza's baffling view of biblical morality -- 6 Hermann Cohen on the concept of law in ethics -- 7 Expressions of caring: relational virtues in Buber's ethics -- 8 Cosmopolitan tolerance and asymmetrical ethics: Adorno, Levinas, Derrida -- PART III Contemporary challenges -- 9 Textual morality: on the neglect of ritual in applied Jewish ethics -- 10 A critical reading of American liberal Jewish engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- 11 Afro-Jewish ethics? -- 12 Jewish history and memory: historiographical ethics after Yerushalmi's Zakhor -- Index.
This book brings together the work of established and up-and-coming scholars from Israel, the US, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and philosophical ethics. It discusses a wide variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and the Mishnah," "Afro Jewish ethics" and "Jewish historiographical ethics".
9781315385730
Jewish ethics--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
BJ1285.2.J495 2018
296.36
Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (260 pages) - Routledge Jewish Studies Series . - Routledge Jewish Studies Series .
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I Rabbinics -- 1 Angels vs. humans in the moral psychology of R. Meir Simhah Ha-Kohen of Dvinsk -- 2 Angels, humans, and the struggle for moral excellence in the writings of Meir Simhah of Dvinsk and Simhah Zissel of Kelm -- 3 Wise hukkim and the Byzantine sermonic ideology of a Divine fiat -- PART II Philosophy -- 4 Is Maimonides a moral relativist? -- 5 Spinoza's baffling view of biblical morality -- 6 Hermann Cohen on the concept of law in ethics -- 7 Expressions of caring: relational virtues in Buber's ethics -- 8 Cosmopolitan tolerance and asymmetrical ethics: Adorno, Levinas, Derrida -- PART III Contemporary challenges -- 9 Textual morality: on the neglect of ritual in applied Jewish ethics -- 10 A critical reading of American liberal Jewish engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- 11 Afro-Jewish ethics? -- 12 Jewish history and memory: historiographical ethics after Yerushalmi's Zakhor -- Index.
This book brings together the work of established and up-and-coming scholars from Israel, the US, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and philosophical ethics. It discusses a wide variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and the Mishnah," "Afro Jewish ethics" and "Jewish historiographical ethics".
9781315385730
Jewish ethics--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
BJ1285.2.J495 2018
296.36