Morality and religion : the Jewish story / Avi Sagi.
Sagi, Abraham.
2021
BJ1285.2
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Title Morality and religion : the Jewish story / Avi Sagi.
Author Sagi, Abraham.
ISBN 9783030822422 (electronic bk.)
3030822427 (electronic bk.)
3030822419
9783030822415
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82242-2
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xi, 346 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-82242-2 doi
Call Number BJ1285.2
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.3/6
Summary The relationship between morality and religion has long been controversial, familiar in its formulation as Euthyphros dilemma: Is an act right because God commanded it or did God command it because it is right. In Morality and Religion: The Jewish Story, renowned scholar Avi Sagi marshals the breadth of philosophical and hermeneutical tools to examine this relationship in Judaism from two perspectives. The first considers whether Judaism adopted a thesis widespread in other monotheistic religions known as 'divine command morality, ' making morality contingent on Gods command. The second deals with the ways Jewish tradition grapples with conflicts between religious and moral obligations. After examining a broad spectrum of Jewish sourcesincluding Talmudic literature, Halakhah, Aggadah, Jewish philosophy, and liturgySagi concludes that mainstream Jewish tradition consistently refrains from attempts to endorse divine command morality or resolve conflicts by invoking a divine command. Rather, the central strand in Judaism perceives God and humans as inhabiting the same moral community and bound by the same moral obligations. When conflicts emerge between moral and religious instructions, Jewish tradition interprets religious norms so that they ultimately pass the moral test. This mainstream voice is anchored in the meaning of Jewish law, which is founded on human autonomy and rationality, and in the relationship with God that is assumed in this tradition.
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Series Jewish thought and philosophy.
Available in Other Form Morality and religion.
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1. Introduction
Part I Moralitys Dependence on Religion in Jewish Tradition
2. Between the Duty of Obedience and the Thesis of Dependence
3. DCM in Rabbinic Literature
4. DCM in Jewish Thought
5. The Autonomous Perspective in Jewish Thought
Part II The Autonomous Perspective in Halakhah
6. R. Israel Moses Hazan: Particularism and Universalism
7. R. Shimon Shkop: Religious Commands and Legal Obligations
8. R. Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel: Exclusivity and Moral Autonomy
Part III The Conflict Between Morality and Religion
9. You Are Called Men : Between Jew and Gentile
10. He Slew the Egyptian : On Moses Act and Morality
11. Her Ways Are Ways of Pleasantness : Uprooting a Torah Law
12. The Akedah in Jewish Tradition
Part IV Theoretical Foundations
13. Halakhah and the Dependence Thesis
14. Concluding Reflections.

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