Explores 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.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Julia Annas
Introduction
Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green, and Alan L. Mittleman
1. Biblical Literature
Amanda Beckenstein Mbuvi
2. Philo of Alexandria
Carlos Lévy
3. Titus Flavius Josephus
Clifford Orwin
4. Rabbinic Literature
Deborah Barer
5. Baḥya Ibn Paquda
Diana Lobel
6. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Sarah Pessin
7. Maimonides
Kenneth Seeskin
8. Elazar of Worms
Joseph Isaac Lifshitz
9. Naḥmanides
Jonathan Jacobs
10. The Zohar
Eitan P. Fishbane
11. Gersonides
Alexander Green
12. Ḥasdai 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 Ḥayyim Luzzatto
Patrick Benjamin Koch
18. Moses Mendelssohn
Elias Sacks
19. Menaḥem Mendel Lefin
Harris Bor
20. Ḥayyim of Volozhin
Esti Eisenmann
21. Naḥman of Bratslav
Shaul Magid
22. Isaac Bekhor Amarachi
Katja Šmid
23. Israel Salanter
Sarah Zager
24. Simḥah 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 La Grone
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
Index
Об авторе
Alan L. Mittleman is Associate Professor of Religion at Muhlenberg College. He is the author of Between Kant and Kabbalah, also published by SUNY Press.
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