Download or read book Humanism in Talmud and Midrash written by Samuel Tobias Lachs and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents material from the Talmud and Midrash which have one characteristic in common: they reflect an anthropocentric, rather than a theocentric, view of the world.
Download or read book Humanism in Talmud and Midrash written by Tobias Lachs and published by . This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents material from the Talmud and Midrash which have one characteristic in common: they reflect an anthropocentric, rather than a theocentric, view of the world.
Download or read book Humanism and Judaism written by Mendel Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophy of the Talmud written by Hyam Maccoby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new presentation of the philosophy of the Talmud. The Talmud is not a work of formal philosophy, but much of what it says is relevant to philosophical enquiry, including issues explored in contemporary debates. In particular, the Talmud has original ideas about the relation between universal ethics and the ethics of a particular community. This leads into a discussion on the relation between morality and ritual, and also about the epistemological role of tradition. The book explains the paradoxes of Talmudic Judaism as arising from a philosophy of revolution, stemming from Jewish origins as a band of escaped slaves, determined not to reproduce the slave-society of Egypt. From this arises a daring humanism, and an emphasis on justice in this world rather than on other-worldly spirituality. A strong emphasis on education and the cultivation of rationality also stems from this. Governing the discussion is a theory of logic that differs significantly from Greek logic. Talmudic logic is one of analogy, not classification and is peculiarly suited to discussions of moral and legal human situations. This book will be of interest to those in the fields of philosophy, religion and the history of ideas, whether students, teachers and academics, or the interested general reader.
Download or read book Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore written by Bennett Muraskin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Political Culture of Judaism written by Martin Sicker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sicker examines the fundamental norms of civic conduct considered essential to the emergence and moral viability of the good society envisioned in the source documents and traditions of Judaism. The principles underlying the desired behavioral norms constitute the ethical underpinnings of the unique civilization envisioned by Mosaic teaching, a Judaic civilization characterized by instituted norms of civil conduct deemed necessary to ensure appropriate civil relations between persons, individually and collectively.The tensions in Judaic thought regarding the concept of democracy as a paradigm for Judaic government are examined, including the theological as well as moral implications of democracy that cast doubt on its appropriateness as a political ideal. Sicker considers the role of popular consent as a legitimating factor in the Judaic polity, and the distinctively Judaic approach to the ordering of civil relations in society within the constitutional context of a nomocratic regime based on halakhah, Judaism's own dynamic system of canon law. Three fundamental societal issues are then explored. The status of the individual within the properly constituted society and the relationship of the citizen to the state. Included in this discussion is the question of the legitimacy of civil disobedience. Sicker examines the practical implications for public policy of the Judaic imperatives regarding social justice and the idea of prescriptive equality. He then takes a hard look at the classical Judaic approach to dealing with the problems of ensuring national security within the context of Judaic norms.
Download or read book The Ten Commandments Guidebook written by Michael Alan Ross and published by Michael A. Ross, BostonWalks. This book was released on 2004 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 self-guided walk tours of Jewish Boston history sites with maps and b/w photos.Includes West End, North End, Downtown Boston,South End, Brookline, & Cambridge.Based upon walk tours hosted by author, Michael A. Ross, for ten years.
Download or read book Old New Jewish Humanism written by Efraim Meir and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Readers Guide to Judaism and Jewish Studies written by Sarah Imhoff and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 2013 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Christianity in Talmud and Midrash written by R. T. Herford and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-03-18 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism written by Claire Elise Katz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophical project and the necessary role his essays on Jewish education play in the project’s success. Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas’s essays on Jewish education within the context of his larger philosophical project, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society. Katz examines Levinas’s “Crisis of Humanism,” which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas’s works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject and democracy. “Claire Elise Katz makes great strides in resolving our current cultural war over the role of religion in the public sphere. By turning to Levinas’s writings on education, she shows how religion as a cultural form can engender ethical agents in a way that standard philosophical accounts fail to do.” —Martin Kavka, Florida State University “The great achievement of Claire Katz’s new book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism, is to explain the meaning of Levinas’s ethics in a way that makes it relevant for everyday life without either simplifying it or resorting to the paraphrase that is so often the pitfall of Levinas scholarship. . . . Katz’s book succeeds in transmitting a deep sense of how Levinas’s philosophy is important and relevant in a world in crisis.” —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews “[I]n addition to its excellent readings of many texts and its helpful contextualizing of Levinas’s project, Katz’s book is a very good one indeed and one to be highly recommended.” —AJS Review
Download or read book Subjects to the King s Divorce written by Olga L. Valbuena and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the rhetorical aftermath and political consequences of Henry VIII's double divorce from Katherine of Aragon and from the Church of Rome, this book understands divorce as both culturally powerful and an instrument for examining division in early modern England.
Download or read book Humanist Readings in Jewish Folklore written by Bennett Muraskin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transhumanism and the Body written by C. Mercer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original articles, a sequel of sorts to the 2009 Religion and the Implications of Radical Life Extension (Palgrave Macmillan), is the first sustained reflection, by scholars with expertise in the faith traditions, on how the transhumanist agenda might impact the body.
Download or read book The Hebrew Humanism of Martin Buber written by Grete Schaeder and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donated by Sydney Harris.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Israel Being Extracts from the Babylonian Talmud and Midrash Rabboth 1908 written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book Exodus to Humanism written by David Ibry and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, Jewish identity was inextricably joined with the beliefs and rituals of Judaism. Centuries later, to be a Jew meant, for many, to be a Zionist to fight for the Jewish homeland of Israel. Yet for increasing numbers of Jews today the sense of who they are is not defined by either religion or politics. David Ibry's Exodus to Humanism captures the personal struggles of twenty-four individuals some famous, others courageous citizens who have moved away from traditional forms of Judaism to gain an understanding of themselves as Jews even as they ask if the religion itself has become obsolete. Ibry doesn't shrink from calling for a new humanism among Jewish people. He boldly examines how to define nonreligious Jewishness, and explains how to cope with the obsolete tenets of the faith. Included with the author's own observations and family experiences are statements from others who have rejected the faith in favor of a new era of nonreligious enlightenment. Included are contributions by Isaiah Berlin, Olga Faroqui, Jean-Claude Pecker, Evry Schatzman, and others.
