Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics /

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"Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic world. This collection of critical essays brings together the work of established and up-and-...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hutt, Curtis (Author)
Other Authors: Kim, Halla, Lerner, Berel Dov
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Routledge Jewish Studies Series
Subjects:
Jewish ethics > Philosophy.
Morale juive > Philosophie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 Spinozaâ#x80;#x99;s baffling view of biblical morality
  • 6 Hermann Cohen on the concept of law in ethics7 Expressions of caring: relational virtues in Buberâ#x80;#x99;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 Yerushalmiâ#x80;#x99;s Zakhor

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