Format:
1 online resource (534 pages)
ISBN:
9781438493923
Series Statement:
SUNY Series in Contemporary Jewish Thought Series
Content:
Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Notes -- Chapter 1. Biblical Literature -- Virtue in the Bible -- Particular Virtues -- How Virtue Is Cultivated -- King David as an Exemplar of Virtue -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2. Philo of Alexandria -- The Representations of Virtue: Rachel and Sarah -- Cardinal Virtues in the Treatise of Virtues -- The Paths of Virtue -- Progress and Perfection -- Judaism and Politics: Joseph, the Statesman -- The Role of the Virtues in Philo's Worldview Philonic Virtue and Greek Philosophy -- Philonic Virtue and Greek Philosophy -- Virtues in the Biblical Context -- Conclusion: A Transcendent Humanism -- Notes -- Chapter 3. Titus Flavius Josephus -- The Importance of Ethics to Josephus -- The Virtues Most Important to Josephus, the Manner of Their Cultivation, and Their Exemplars -- Josephus and the Jewish Tradition -- Notes -- Chapter 4. Rabbinic Literature -- Virtues and Their Cultivation -- Imitation -- Argumentation and Interpretation -- The Virtuous Sage: Rabbi Akiva as Exemplar -- Rethinking Virtue: The Flawed but Righteous Sage -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 5. Baḥya Ibn Paquda -- The Centrality of Inner Virtues -- Baḥya's Central Virtues -- The Cultivation of Virtue: Baḥya's Moral and Spiritual Ideal -- Baḥya and the Jewish, Sufi, and Ascetic (Zuhd) Traditions -- Duties of the Heart: Virtue, Law, and the Supreme Goal -- Notes -- Chapter 6. Solomon Ibn Gabirol -- Virtues and Worldview -- Which Virtues? -- Exemplars: From Universal Matter to Divine Essence -- Greco-Jewish Phenomenology of Concrete Life -- Notes -- Chapter 7. Maimonides -- "Eight Chapters" -- The Mishneh Torah -- The Guide of the Perplexed -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 8. Elazar of Worms -- Modesty as a Social Virtue -- Modesty as a Theological Value -- Modesty as a Religious Value (Modesty as Penance).
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781438493909
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Jewish virtue ethics Albany : State University of New York Press, 2023 ISBN 9781438493916
Language:
English
Keywords:
Jüdische Ethik
;
Geschichte
;
Jüdische Ethik
;
Tugendethik
