On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy

L. Goodman

Published by Yale University Press 1991

On Justice

An Essay in Jewish Philosophy

L. Goodman

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300157079

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What is fair? How and when can punishment be legitimate? Is there recompense for human suffering? How can we understand ideas about immortality or an afterlife in the context of critical thinking on the human condition? In this book L. E. Goodman presents the first general theory of justice in this century to make systematic use of the Jewish sources and to bring them into a philosophical dialogue with the leading ethical and political texts of the Western tradition.

Goodman takes an ontological approach to questions of natural and human justice, developing a theory of community and of nonvindictive yet retributive punishment that is grounded in careful analysis of various Jewish sources—biblical, rabbinic, and philosophical, His exegesis of these sources allow Plato, Kant, and Rawls to join in a discourse with Spinoza and medieval rationalists, such as Saasidah and Maimonides, who speak in a very different idiom but address many of the same themes. Drawing on sources old and new, Jewish and non-Jewish, Goodman offers fresh perspectives on important moral and theological issues that will be of interest to both Jewish and secular philosophers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ONE. Toward a Theory of Justice Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
TWO. Punishment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
THREE. Recompense Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
FOUR. Do Beings Receive What They Deserve? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
FIVE. The Messianic .Age Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
SIX. Whereafter? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
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Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press

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