Jewish Virtue Ethics (SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2023

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
531 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781438493923
Related ISBNs:
9781438493916, 9781438493909
Publisher:
State University of New York Press
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Copyrighted By:
State University of New York
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
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Edited by:
Geoffrey D. Claussen
Edited by:
Alexander Green
Edited by:
Alan L. Mittleman

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