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PublisherSTATE University of New York Press

ISBN-101438493916

ISBN-139781438493916

eBay Product ID (ePID)26061250215

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Number of Pages531 Pages

Publication NameJewish Virtue Ethics

LanguageEnglish

SubjectEthics, Judaism / History, Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Philosophy

AuthorGreen Claussen

SeriesSuny Series in Contemporary Jewish Thought Ser.

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight26.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2022-049735

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This is a fantastic book. Its contribution to the field of virtue ethics is significant because it provides a sweep of Judaic treatments of the topic, and its contribution to the field of Jewish ethics will be invaluable due to the relative dearth of material on virtue ethics thus far. It will be a cherished and, I hope, widely used resource." -- Jonathan K. Crane, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality, "Written by top scholars, these essays are united in answering four questions: In what way are virtues important to the thinker or work? Which virtues are emphasized? How does this thinker or work imagine that virtues are best cultivated? What impact does this conception of virtue have on the thinker's or documents' interpretation of Judaism? This accessible collection has the added value of revealing larger themes and considerations displayed in the long history of Jewish thinking about virtue." -- CHOICE "This is a fantastic book. Its contribution to the field of virtue ethics is significant because it provides a sweep of Judaic treatments of the topic, and its contribution to the field of Jewish ethics will be invaluable due to the relative dearth of material on virtue ethics thus far. It will be a cherished and, I hope, widely used resource." -- Jonathan K. Crane, coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality

Grade FromCollege Freshman

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal296.383

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Foreword Julia Annas Introduction Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green, and Alan L. Mittleman 1. Biblical Literature Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi 2. Philo of Alexandria Carlos LÃ©vy 3. Titus Flavius Josephus Clifford Orwin 4. Rabbinic Literature Deborah Barer 5. Baya Ibn Paquda Diana Lobel 6. Solomon Ibn Gabirol Sarah Pessin 7. Maimonides Kenneth Seeskin 8. Elazar of Worms Joseph Isaac Lifshitz 9. Namanides Jonathan Jacobs 10. The Zohar Eitan P. Fishbane 11. Gersonides Alexander Green 12. asdai Crescas Roslyn Weiss 13. Joseph Albo Shira Weiss 14. Isaac Arama Baruch Frydman-Kohl 15. Moses Cordovero Eugene D. Matanky 16. Baruch Spinoza Heidi M. Ravven 17. Moses ayyim Luzzatto Patrick Benjamin Koch 18. Moses Mendelssohn Elias Sacks 19. Menaem Mendel Lefin Harris Bor 20. ayyim of Volozhin Esti Eisenmann 21. Naman of Bratslav Shaul Magid 22. Isaac Bekhor Amarachi Katja Smid 23. Israel Salanter Sarah Zager 24. Simah Zissel Ziv Geoffrey D. Claussen 25. Hermann Cohen Shira Billet 26. Abraham Isaac Kook Don Seeman 27. Martin Buber William Plevan 28. Mordecai Kaplan Matthew LaGrone 29. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler Esther Solomon 30. Joseph Soloveitchik Yonatan Y. Brafman 31. Hannah Arendt Ned Curthoys 32. Emmanuel Levinas Richard A. Cohen 33. Abraham Joshua Heschel Einat Ramon 34. Jewish Feminism Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi 35. Jewish Environmentalism Hava Tirosh-Samuelson Afterword Alan L. Mittleman List of Contributors Indexâ€ƒ

SynopsisExplores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day. 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., Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.

LC Classification NumberBJ1286.V57J49 2023