Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal EthicsIn this topically relevant book on modern ethical issues, Dorff focuses on personal ethics, Judaism's distinctive way of understanding human nature, our role in life, and what we should strive to be, both as individuals and as members of a community. Dorff addresses specific moral issues that affect our personal lives: privacy, particularly at work as it is affected by the Internet and other modern technologies; sex in and outside of marriage; family matters, such as adoption, surrogate motherhood, stepfamilies, divorce, parenting, and family violence; homosexuality; justice, mercy, and forgiveness; and charitable acts and social action. |
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Pagina xii
In fact, it is more complicated than that, for one cannot reasonably speak about only one Jewish way of looking at almost anything. If we Jews are anything, we are obstreperous.
In fact, it is more complicated than that, for one cannot reasonably speak about only one Jewish way of looking at almost anything. If we Jews are anything, we are obstreperous.
Pagina 6
... distress but also relieved his own distress at seeing the beggar's woeful state.1 This is a clear example of the fact that what defines an ethical egoist is that whatever is done for others is good only if it benefits the doer.
... distress but also relieved his own distress at seeing the beggar's woeful state.1 This is a clear example of the fact that what defines an ethical egoist is that whatever is done for others is good only if it benefits the doer.
Pagina 9
That, in fact, is what gives moral norms their authority. Such an understanding of nature, however, leaves little room for changing moral norms in, for example, the view of women, sexual orientation, or other races.
That, in fact, is what gives moral norms their authority. Such an understanding of nature, however, leaves little room for changing moral norms in, for example, the view of women, sexual orientation, or other races.
Pagina 10
The disadvantage of this theory is that Ross maintains that these duties are built into us, so that we simply intuit them; but, at the same time, he knows these duties from the fact that cultured people hold them.
The disadvantage of this theory is that Ross maintains that these duties are built into us, so that we simply intuit them; but, at the same time, he knows these duties from the fact that cultured people hold them.
Pagina 19
... “personalist” or even “feminist,” suffers from the same problems that Reform individualism has: It is weak on Jewish identity, continuity, coherence, and authority. At the same time, it locates moral decisions where they in fact lie ...
... “personalist” or even “feminist,” suffers from the same problems that Reform individualism has: It is weak on Jewish identity, continuity, coherence, and authority. At the same time, it locates moral decisions where they in fact lie ...
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Sommario
| 1 | |
| 33 | |
This Is My Beloved This Is My Friend Sex and the Family | 73 |
Parents and Children | 127 |
Family and Violence | 155 |
The Elements of Forgiveness | 207 |
Hope and Destiny | 231 |
Notes | 252 |
The Interaction of Judaism with Morality Defining Motivating and Educating a Moral Person and Society | 311 |
Notes to Appendix | 345 |
Bibliography of Cited Modern Sources | 347 |
Index | 361 |
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Informazioni bibliografiche
| Titolo | Love Your Neighbor and Yourself: A Jewish Approach to Modern Personal Ethics |
| Autore | Elliot N. Dorff |
| Edizione | ristampa |
| Editore | Jewish Publication Society, 2006 |
| ISBN | 082760825X, 9780827608252 |
| Lunghezza | 384 pagine |
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