This book presents a series of studies that cover a wide range of issues relat...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...more
A groundbreaking study of thepoliticalphilosophy of Maimonidesand his Islam...A groundbreaking study of the political philosophy of Maimonides and his Islamic predecessors.more
The study of Jewishpoliticalphilosophy is a recently established field in th...The study of Jewish political philosophy is a recently established field in the study of Jewish philosophy. While in older histories of Jewish philosophy there is hardly any discussion of this topic recent editors of such books have found it useful...more
Gersonides was one of the intellectual giants of the medieval Jewish world a t...Gersonides was one of the intellectual giants of the medieval Jewish world a thinker of remarkable diversity and ingenuity. In the light of Gersonides thought on providential suffering and on inherited providence this book analyzes his position on...more
When We Collide is a landmark reassessment of the significance of sex in conte...When We Collide is a landmark reassessment of the significance of sex in contemporary Jewish ethics. Rebecca Epstein-Levi offers a fresh and vital exploration of sexual ethics and virtue ethics in conversation with rabbinic texts and feminist and...more
The first study of Strauss s confrontation with modern science and its methods...The first study of Strauss s confrontation with modern science and its methods. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unpublished archival material Leo Strauss on Science brings to light the thoughts of Leo Strauss on the problem of science....more
David Luban is one of the world s leading scholars of legal ethics. In this co...David Luban is one of the world s leading scholars of legal ethics. In this collection of his most significant papers he ranges over such topics as the moral psychology of organisational evil the strengths and weaknesses of the adversary system and...more
The task of reinterpretation arises from recognition within continental philos...The task of reinterpretation arises from recognition within continental philosophy of a certain abandonment of political philosophy for historicism or a scientistic search for laws. Contemporary debate over the death of the possibility of the...more
European and North American scholars explore thepoliticalphilosophy of Arist...European and North American scholars explore the political philosophy of Aristotle with particular attention to questions arising from the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics.more
The task of reinterpretation arises from recognition within continental philos...The task of reinterpretation arises from recognition within continental philosophy of a certain abandonment of political philosophy for historicism or a scientistic search for laws. Contemporary debate over the death of the possibility of the...more
European and North American scholars explore thepoliticalphilosophy of Arist...European and North American scholars explore the political philosophy of Aristotle with particular attention to questions arising from the Politics and the Nicomachean Ethics. This wide-ranging collection of essays by European and American scholars...more
Science inthe Bet Midrash explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides ...Science in the Bet Midrash explores the religious thought of Moses Maimonides (1138-1204) one of the most influential Jews of the last thousand years. While covering many aspects of his religious philosophy these essays focus on the way Maimonides...more
In Exile and Otherness: TheEthics of Shinran andMaimonides Ilana Maymind arg...In Exile and Otherness: The Ethics of Shinran and Maimonides Ilana Maymind argues that Shinran (1173-1263) the founder of True Pure Land Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu) and Maimonides (1138-1204) a Jewish philosopher Torah scholar and physician were both...more
Emmanuel Levinas Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by...Emmanuel Levinas Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by insisting that ethics must be Western thought s first concern. Unlike previous thinkers they locate humanity s source of universal ethical obligation in the temporal...more
Every work on Jewishthoughtandlaw since the twelfth century bears the impri...Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whitehead s famous dictum that the entire European philosophical tradition consists of a series of footnotes to Plato could equally characterize...more