Jewish Social Ethics

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Oxford University Press, 1992 - Law - 252 pages
Leading contemporary Jewish thinker David Novak has here compiled ten of his essays on a variety of issues in Jewish ethics. Drawing constantly on classical Jewish tradition, Novak also looks at a wide range of modern critical scholarship on the ancient sources. He aims to point out certain common features of Jewish and Christian ethics and the normative implications of this overlapping of traditions; he assumes the reality of a "Judeo-Christian ethic," while refusing to minimize the doctrinal differences between the two traditions. The essays address such major normative issues in social justice as ecology, war and peace, the treatment of minorities, and the approach to AIDS patients. This combination of theoretical reflection and practical application, along with careful and detailed analysis of classical Jewish texts, makes the book a welcome contribution to contemporary ethical theory and normative ethics as well as a work of original Jewish theology.

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Contents

Introduction
3
Jewish Social Ethics Philosophically Conceived
14
Natural Law Halakhah and the Covenant
22
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

DavidNovakEdgar M. Bronfman Professor of Modern Judaic StudiesUniversity of Virginia.

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