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Author :Geoffrey D. Claussen Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :1438493924 Total Pages :427 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis Jewish Virtue Ethics by : Geoffrey D. Claussen
Download or read book Jewish Virtue Ethics written by Geoffrey D. Claussen and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue. Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.
Book Synopsis The Jewish Moral Virtues by : Eugene B. Borowitz
Download or read book The Jewish Moral Virtues written by Eugene B. Borowitz and published by Jewish Publication Society. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish Moral Virtues is a book of musar - practical ethical wisdom applied to contemporary life. In form and purpose, it is parallel to William Bennett's bestselling Book of Virtues. Authors Borowitz and Schwartz synthesize traditional scholarship from a wide range of Jewish sources with personal insights into modern ethical dilemmas. Traditionally, Jewish ethical teachers have been concerned with law or general guidance for a good life, i.e., virtue, rather than philosophical meditations upon specific issues. This collection is structured upon the twenty-four virtues selected by a thirteenth-century Roman Jew, Yehiel ben Yekutiel, including trustworthiness, lovingkindness, compassion, generosity, charity, humility, and pure-heartedness, among others, and expands to include wisdom from the ancient rabbis, medieval philosophers, and Yehiel's successors over the past seven centuries.
Book Synopsis Applying Jewish Ethics by : Jennifer A. Thompson
Download or read book Applying Jewish Ethics written by Jennifer A. Thompson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-12-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying Jewish Ethics: Beyond the Rabbinic Tradition introduces the reader to applied ethics and examines various social issues from contemporary and largely underrepresented Jewish ethical perspectives. The chapters explain and apply Jewish ethical ideas to contemporary issues connected to racial justice, immigration, gender justice, queer identity, and economic and environmental justice in ways that illustrate their relevance for Jews and non-Jews alike.
Book Synopsis Striving Toward Virtue by : Kerry M. Olitzky
Download or read book Striving Toward Virtue written by Kerry M. Olitzky and published by KTAV Publishing House, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary guide for Jewish ethical behavior and moral living that explores subjects such as the appeal of evil, the value of good deeds, and the implications of gossip. Rabbis Olitzky and Sabath recommend actions that we can take to help strengthen and heal ourselves and our world.
Book Synopsis The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides by : Alexander Green
Download or read book The Virtue Ethics of Levi Gersonides written by Alexander Green and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers. Gersonides is recognized by scholars as one of the most innovative Jewish philosophers of the medieval period. His first model of virtue is a response to the seemingly capricious forces of luck through training in endeavor, diligence, and cunning aimed at physical self-preservation. His second model of virtue is altruistic in nature. It is based on the human imitation of God as creator of the laws of the universe for no self-interested benefit, leading humans to imitate God through the virtues of loving-kindness, grace, and beneficence. Both these models are amplified through the institutions of the kingship and the priesthood, which serve to actualize physical preservation and beneficence on a larger scale, amounting to recognition of the political necessity for a division of powers.
Book Synopsis Maimonides for Moderns by : Ira Bedzow
Download or read book Maimonides for Moderns written by Ira Bedzow and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides’s Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition.
Book Synopsis The Ethics of Judaism: Foundation of Jewish ethics by : Moritz Lazarus
Download or read book The Ethics of Judaism: Foundation of Jewish ethics written by Moritz Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Ethics of Judaism by : Moritz Lazarus
Download or read book The Ethics of Judaism written by Moritz Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Short History of Jewish Ethics by : Alan L. Mittleman
Download or read book A Short History of Jewish Ethics written by Alan L. Mittleman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day. Offers an engaging and thoughtful account of Jewish ethics Brings together and discusses a broad range of historical sources covering two millennia of writings and conversations Combines current scholarship with original insights Written by a major internationally recognized scholar of Jewish philosophy and ethics
Book Synopsis Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics by : Curtis Hutt
Download or read book Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics written by Curtis Hutt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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-coming scholars from Israel, the United States, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and philosophical ethics. The chapters are broken into three main sections – Rabbinics, Philosophy, and Contemporary Challenges. The authors address, using a variety of research strategies, the work of both major and lesser-known figures in historical Jewish religious and philosophical traditions. The book discusses a wide variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and the Mishnah," "Afro Jewish ethics," "Jewish historiographical ethics," as well as the conceptual/philosophical foundations of the law and virtues in the work of Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, and Baruch Spinoza.The volume closes with four contributions on present-day frontiers in Jewish ethics. As the first book to focus on the nature, scope and ramifications of the Jewish ethics at work in religious and philosophical contexts, this book will be of great interest to anyone studying Jewish Studies, Philosophy and Religion.
Book Synopsis Foundation of Jewish ethics by : Moritz Lazarus
Download or read book Foundation of Jewish ethics written by Moritz Lazarus and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Jewish Ethical Values by : Dr. Byron L. Sherwin
Download or read book Jewish Ethical Values written by Dr. Byron L. Sherwin and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With insightful commentary, passion and expertise, Rabbis Sherwin and Cohen guide us through selections from classic Jewish ethical literature, offering clear explanations of the historic context of each writing and thoughtful applications of their wisdom on the problems we grapple with today.
Book Synopsis Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century by :
Download or read book Virtue and Ethics in the Twelfth Century written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains fifteen contributions on diverse aspects of twelfth-century moral thought, including monastic morality, (proto-)scholastic virtue ethics, the conception of virtue in various socio-political contexts and ethical traditions in Islamic and Jewish philosophy.
Book Synopsis Modern Musar by : Geoffrey D. Claussen
Download or read book Modern Musar written by Geoffrey D. Claussen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-04 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Musar explores the diverse ways Jews understand ten virtues: honesty and love of truth; curiosity and inquisitiveness; humility; courage and valor; temperance and self-restraint; gratitude; forgiveness; love, kindness, and compassion; solidarity and social responsibility; and justice and righteousness.
Book Synopsis Original Virtue, and Other Short Studies by : Solomon Levy
Download or read book Original Virtue, and Other Short Studies written by Solomon Levy and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Judaism written by Meyer Waxman and published by New York : T. Yoseloff. This book was released on 1958 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethical Monotheism written by Ehud Benor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term Ethical Monotheism is an important marker in Judaism’s tumultuous transition into the modern era. The term emerged in the context of culture-wars concerning the question of whether or not Jews could or should become emancipated citizens of modern European states. It appeared in arguments whether or not Judaism could be considered a Religion of Reason—a symbolic, motivational representation of a universal morality, and in debates about whether or not Judaism could or should reform itself into a Religion of Reason. This book is both a decisive departure from such discussions and an attempt to add a further, post-modern, statement to their ongoing development. As departure, it refuses to take for granted a philosophical conception of Religion of Reason as the standard for Ethical Monotheism according to which Judaism was to be evaluated or reformed. As continuation, the book undertakes a phenomenology of Jewish modes of ethical religiosity that allows it to inquire what kind of ethical monotheism Judaism might be. Through sophisticated analysis of select "snapshots," or "fragments of a hologram," guided by a robust theory of religion, the author discloses Judaic ethical monotheism as an ongoing wrestling with the meaning of justice. By closely examining five main "snapshots" of this long process—the Bible, rabbinic Judaism, Maimonides, The Zohar, and the modern philosophers, Buber and Levinas—the author offers his own constructive philosophy of Judaism and his own distinctive philosophy of religion. Ethical Monotheism offers a new way to think about Judaism as a religion and as a coherent philosophical debate, and demonstrates the need to integrate philosophy, history, cognitive psychology, anthropology, theology, and history of science in the study of "religion."
