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Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge Jewish Studies SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781315385730
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewish Religious and Philosophical EthicsDDC classification:
  • 296.36
LOC classification:
  • BJ1285.2.J495 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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".
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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".

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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