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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan A. Jacobs received his Ph.D from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge and was John MacMurray Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Ethics, Philosophy, and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews, and Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy & Policy Center Bowling Green State University. He has also been Director of the Division of Humanities at Colgate University, where he was Richard J. and Jean Head Professor of Philosophy. Most of his work is in moral psychology and metaethics, with a focus on Aristotle and medieval philosophy, as well as issues concerning the aims and justification of punishment. Klappentext Judaic Sources and Western Thought: Jerusalem's Enduring Presence explores the significance and enduring relevance of Judaic roots and sources of important European and Western moral and political ideas and ideals. The volume focuses on the distinct character of Judaic thought concerning moral value, the individual human being, the nature of political order, relations between human beings, and between human beings and God. In doing so, it shows how Judaic thought contains crucial resources for engaging some of the most important issues of moral and political life. Zusammenfassung This volume focuses on the distinct character of Judaic thought concerning moral value, the individual human being, the nature of political order, relations between human beings, and between human beings and God. The work of ten scholars, it draws on moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, Jewish intellectual history, and theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I: Some Judaic Roots 1: Alan Mittleman: The Durability of Goodness 2: Kenneth Seeskin: Judaism and the Idea of the Future II: Judaic Culture and Politics 3: Steven Grosby: Hebraism: The Third Culture 4: Yorum Hazony: The Political Thought of the Biblical History, Genesis-Kings III: Fundamental Elements of Morality and Moral Psychology 5: Jonathan Jacobs: Tradition, Rationality, and Moral Life: Medieval Judaism's Insight 6: David Novak: Natural Law and Jewish Philosophy IV: Medieval and Moral Politics: Maimonides and Spinoza on Reason and Revelation 7: Daniel H. Frank: The Politics of Fear: Idolatry and Superstition in Maimonides and Spinoza 8: Edward C. Halper: Torah as Political Philosophy: Maimonides and Spinoza on Religious Law V: Moral Philosophy: Enduring Influences and Continued Borrowings 9: Ze'ev Maghen: Dancing in Chains: The Baffling Coexistence of Legalism and Exuberance in Judaic and Islamic Tradition 10: Lenn E. Goodman: Individuality ...
