Law Politics And Morality In Judaism

Author : Michael Walzer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400827206

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Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism by Michael Walzer Pdf

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other. What use, then, can this body of thought be today to Jews living in Israel or as emancipated citizens in secular democratic states? Can a culture of exile be adapted to help Jews find ways of being at home politically today? These questions are central in Law, Politics, and Morality in Judaism, a collection of essays by contemporary political theorists, philosophers, and lawyers. How does Jewish law accommodate--or fail to accommodate--the practice of democratic citizenship? What range of religious toleration and pluralism is compatible with traditional Judaism? What forms of coexistence between Jews and non-Jews are required by shared citizenship? How should Jews operating within halakha (Jewish law) and Jewish history judge the use of force by modern states? The authors assembled here by prominent political theorist Michael Walzer come from different points on the religious-secular spectrum, and they differ greatly in their answers to such questions. But they all enact the relationship at issue since their answers, while based on critical Jewish texts, also reflect their commitments as democratic citizens. The contributors are Michael Walzer, David Biale, the late Robert M. Cover, Menachem Fisch, Geoffrey B. Levey, David Novak, Aviezer Ravitzky, Adam B. Seligman, Suzanne Last Stone, and Noam J. Zohar.

Author : Elliot N. Dorff,Jonathan K. Crane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199397433

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality by Elliot N. Dorff,Jonathan K. Crane Pdf

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question. The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct by individuals, communities, and countries and shows how to motivate people to do the good and right thing. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality is a collection of original essays addressing these topics--historical and contemporary, as well as philosophical and practical--by leading scholars from around the world. The first section of the volume describes the history of the Jewish tradition's moral thought, from the Bible to contemporary Jewish approaches. The second part includes chapters on specific fields in ethics, including the ethics of medicine, business, sex, speech, politics, war, and the environment.

Author : Leora Batnitzky,Yonatan Brafman
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781512601350

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Jewish Legal Theories by Leora Batnitzky,Yonatan Brafman Pdf

Contemporary arguments about Jewish law uniquely reflect both the story of Jewish modernity and a crucial premise of modern conceptions of law generally: the claim of autonomy for the intellectual subject and practical sphere of the law. Jewish Legal Theories collects representative modern Jewish writings on law and provides short commentaries and annotations on these writings that situate them within Jewish thought and history, as well as within modern legal theory. The topics addressed by these documents include Jewish legal theory from the modern nation-state to its adumbration in the forms of Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Judaism in the German-Jewish context; the development of Jewish legal philosophy in Eastern Europe beginning in the eighteenth century; Ultra-Orthodox views of Jewish law premised on the rejection of the modern nation-state; the role of Jewish law in Israel; and contemporary feminist legal theory.

Author : Warren Goldstein (Rabbi.)
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158330732X

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Defending the Human Spirit by Warren Goldstein (Rabbi.) Pdf

Expanded from the Chief Rabbi of South Africa's doctoral thesis, Defending the Human Spirit explores the Torah's legal system compared to Western law. Using real court cases to demonstrate the similarities and differences between Judaism's view of defending the vulnerable and Western legal practice, Rabbi Goldstein places halacha as truly ahead of its time. Covering such diverse topics as political tyranny, oppression of women, crime, and poverty, Defending the Human Spirit is fascinating, informative and inspiring reading.

Author : Dana Hollander
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781487533687

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Ethics Out of Law by Dana Hollander Pdf

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was a leading figure in the Neo-Kantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He is also the inaugural figure for what is meant by "modern Jewish philosophy" in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores Cohen’s striking claim that ethics is rooted in law – a claim developed in both his philosophical ethics and his philosophy of Judaism, in particular in his writings on "love-of-neighbor," up to and including his well-known Religion of Reason. Dana Hollander proposes that neither Cohen’s systematic philosophy nor his "Jewish" philosophy should be seen as the dominant framework for his oeuvre as a whole, but that his understanding of key philosophical questions takes shape in the passages between both corpuses, a trait that could be seen as paradigmatic for modern Jewish philosophy. Ethics Out of Law taps into one of the prime topics of current interest in the field of Jewish philosophy: the nature of Jewish political existence and the changing configurations of "law" that this entails.

Author : Daniel H. Frank
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438403199

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Commandment and Community by Daniel H. Frank Pdf

This book is divided into two parts, "Judaism and Political Praxis" and "Halakha and the Political Order." The first part is concerned with issues at the interface of Jewish political theory and practice: a Jewish philosophy of justice, the formulation of a practical philosophy based on traditional Jewish sources, and the need for greater political activism among Jews. The second part presents both systematic and historical studies. It includes the strategies used to determine the meaning and intelligibility of texts and norms in the rabbinic tradition, trends in the history of Jewish political thought, and the connectedness of law and morality in traditional Judaism.

Author : Eliezer Berkovits
Publisher : Shalem Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9657052033

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Essential Essays on Judaism by Eliezer Berkovits Pdf

The essay "Faith after the Holocaust" (pp. 315-332) is an excerpt from his book "Faith after the Holocaust" (New York: Ktav, 1973).

Author : Sol Roth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015016963210

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Halakhah and Politics by Sol Roth Pdf

Author : Jonathan Sacks
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541675322

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Morality by Jonathan Sacks Pdf

A distinguished religious leader's stirring case for reconstructing a shared framework of virtues and values. With liberal democracy embattled, public discourse grown toxic, family life breaking down, and drug abuse and depression on the rise, many fear what the future holds. In Morality, respected faith leader and public intellectual Jonathan Sacks traces today's crisis to our loss of a strong, shared moral code and our elevation of self-interest over the common good. We have outsourced morality to the market and the state, but neither is capable of showing us how to live. Sacks leads readers from ancient Greece to the Enlightenment to the present day to show that there is no liberty without morality and no freedom without responsibility, arguing that we all must play our part in rebuilding a common moral foundation. A major work of moral philosophy, Morality is an inspiring vision of a world in which we can all find our place and face the future without fear.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814321992

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Exploring Jewish Ethics by Eugene B. Borowitz Pdf

The essay "Buddhist and Jewish Ethics: A Response to Masao Abe" (pp. 464-473) relates to a paper by Abe due to be published in 1990 which explains his Buddhist understanding of ultimate reality. Though his primary discussion is with Christianity, he also seeks to understand how Jewish thinkers have come to terms with the Holocaust, hoping in this way to initiate Buddhist-Jewish dialogue. Borowitz explains Jewish philosophical and theological responses to the Holocaust.

Author : Elliot N. Dorff,Jonathan K. Crane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190608385

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The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality by Elliot N. Dorff,Jonathan K. Crane Pdf

For thousands of years the Jewish tradition has been a source of moral guidance, for Jews and non-Jews alike. As the essays in this volume show, the theologians and practitioners of Judaism have a long history of wrestling with moral questions, responding to them in an open, argumentative mode that reveals the strengths and weaknesses of all sides of a question. The Jewish tradition also offers guidance for moral conduct by individuals, communities, and countries and shows how to motivate people to do the good and right thing. The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality is a collection of original essays addressing these topics--historical and contemporary, as well as philosophical and practical--by leading scholars from around the world. The first section of the volume describes the history of the Jewish tradition's moral thought, from the Bible to contemporary Jewish approaches. The second part includes chapters on specific fields in ethics, including the ethics of medicine, business, sex, speech, politics, war, and the environment.

Author : Daniel Judah Elazar
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0819128015

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Kinship and Consent by Daniel Judah Elazar Pdf

Co-published with the Center for Jewish Community Studies, this volume is based on the finest fruits of a summer Colloquium of The Institute for Judaism and Contemporary Thought held at the Kibbutz Lavi in Israel. Explores Jewish political life and thought from the Biblical period to the present in order to ascertain the content and character of the Jewish political tradition and its relevance for our time.

Author : Aaron Levine (1946-2011)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199996155

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Economic Morality and Jewish Law by Aaron Levine (1946-2011) Pdf

Economic Morality and Jewish Law compares the way in which welfare economics and Jewish law determine the propriety of an economic action, whether by a private citizen or the government. Espousing what philosophers would call a consequentialist ethical system, welfare economics evaluates the worthiness of an economic action based on whether the action would increase the wealth of society in the long run. In sharp contrast, Jewish law espouses a deontological system of ethics. Within this ethical system, the determination of the propriety of an action is entirely a matter of discovering the applicable rule in Judaism's code of ethics. This volume explores a variety of issues implicating morality for both individual commercial activity and economic public policy. Issues examined include price controls, the living wage, the lemons problem, short selling, and Ronald Coase's seminal theories on negative externalities. To provide an analytic framework for the study of these issues, the work first delineates the normative theories behind the concept of economic morality for welfare economics and Jewish law, and presents a case study illustrating the deontological nature of Jewish law. The book introduces what for many readers will be a new perspective on familiar economic issues. Despite the very different approaches that welfare economics and Jewish law take in evaluating the worthiness of an economic action, the author reveals a remarkable symmetry between the two systems in their ultimate prescriptions for certain economic issues.

Author : Howard Kreisel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438409672

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Maimonides' Political Thought by Howard Kreisel Pdf

This book presents a series of studies that cover a wide range of issues relating to Maimonides' political thought, including the basis for political and ethical knowledge; the notion of the "good"; imitatio Dei; apparent contradictions in his position on ethics; the conception of God that he attempts to inculcate to Jewish society at large; and his novel approach to the love and fear of God. Taking into account his medieval Aristotelian and Jewish sources, these explorations also deal with some of the opposing considerations that Maimonides had to balance in developing and presenting his positions on such subjects as the nature of divine law, the static vs. dynamic dimensions of Mosaic law, prophetic and rabbinic authority within Judaism, the reasons for the commandments, and martyrdom. A close reading of the manner in which he formulates his views, in light of their literary and intellectual-historical contexts, allows us a better glimpse of how profound and subtle Maimonides is as a thinker and an educator.

Author : Kim Treiger-Bar-Am
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793637703

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Freedom and Respect in Jewish Ethics by Kim Treiger-Bar-Am Pdf

This book explores the norms we have and where we want to go with them. The project began by asking people what they think is the central value in society today. The responses point to notions of what seems “right” to people. We can move forward with these intuitions about the main tenet of our moral lives. Respondents named values regarding freedom of the Self, and concern for the Other. Indeed with freedom, we can respect others. And we must. People’s lives are intertwined, and so freedom as a concept cannot be understood without taking account of this reality. The author suggests that the value to be taken as central is the moral freedom of respect. It ought to guide us in designing the society we want to build. The law can be a bridge towards that normative world. Jewish ethics may illuminate the path.