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OverviewWhat 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Geoffrey D. Claussen , Alexander Green , Alan L. MittlemanPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438493909ISBN 10: 1438493908 Pages: 531 Publication Date: 02 February 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 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 IndexReviews“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 Author InformationGeoffrey D. Claussen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lori and Eric Sklut Scholar in Jewish Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Elon University. He is the author of Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar, also published by SUNY Press. Alexander Green is Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He is the author of Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History, also published by SUNY Press. Alan L. Mittleman is the Aaron Rabinowitz and Simon H. Rifkind Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary. He is the author of Does Judaism Condone Violence? Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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