Contemporary Jewish ethics and morality : a reader /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. |
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| Description: | xiii, 486 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1697876 |
Table of Contents:
- Editors' Introduction
- I. Jewish Ethics
- A. The Literature and Context of Jewish Ethics.
- 1. ""The Structure of Jewish Ethics""
- B. Theoretical Issues in Jewish Ethics
- 1. ""Ethics as Law, Law as Religion""
- 2. ""Natural Law, Halakah, and the Covenant""
- 3. ""The Single Mirror of Jewish Images""
- 4. ""Covenant: The Transcendent Thrust in Jewish Law""
- C. Reconceptualizing Jewish Ethics in Modern Times
- 1. ""Modernizing American Jewish Ethics: The Liberal Dilemma""
- 2. ""The Jewish Self""
- 3. ""Jewish Tradition and Political Action""
- D. Methodological Problems: The Case of Jewish Medical Ethics
- 1. ""How to Draw Guidance from a Heritage: Moral Choices""
- 2. ""Woodchoppers and Respirators: The Problem of Interpretation""
- 3. "" A Methodology for Jewish Medical Ethics""
- 4. ""Cases and Principles in Jewish Bioethics""
- E. Alternative Visions of Jewish Ethics.
- 1. ""Jewish Ethics After the Holocaust""
- 2. ""An Ethics of Encounter: Public Choices and Private Acts""
- 3. ""Emmanuel Levinas' Talmudic Commentaries""
- II. Jewish Morality
- Introduction
- A. Traditional Jewish Virtues and Values.
- 1. ""The Meaning of Jewish Existence""
- 2. ""Towards a Definition of Humility""
- B. Jewish Perspectives on Sex and Family
- 1. ""Some Aspects of Sex, Society and God in Judaism""
- 2. ""Down-to-Earth Judiasm: Sexuality""
- 3. ""Jewish Family Ethics in Post-Halakhic Age""
- 4. ""The Theoretical Basis of Women's Equality in Judaism""
- C. Jewish Perspectives on Social Problems.
- 1. ""Ecology and the Judaic Tradition""
- 2. ""A Jewish View of Economic Justice""
- 3. ""Jewish Tradition and Capital Punishment""
- D. Jewish Perspectives on Medical Ethics.
- 1. ""Euthanasia""
- 2. ""Euthanasia: A Jewish View""
- 3. ""This Matter of Abortion""
- 4. ""Judaism and the Justification of Abortion for Non-Medical Reasons""
- E. Jewish Perspectives on Politics and Power: The State of Israel.
- 1. ""The Ethics Of Jewish Power""
- 2. ""Feminist Reflections on the State of Israel""
- 3. ""Living with Conflicting Values""
- 4. ""The Ethics of Ruling a Jewish State with a Large Non-Jewish Minority""
- Epilogue: The Future of Jewish Ethics and Morals