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    Ethics without exit: Levinas and Murdoch.Bob Plant - 2003 - Philosophy and Literature 27 (2):456-470.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Philosophy and Literature 27.2 (2003) 456-470 [Access article in PDF] Ethics without Exit:Levinas and Murdoch Bob Plant Hearts open very easily to the working class, wallets with more difficulty. What opens with the most difficulty of all are the doors of our own homes. —Emmanuel Levinas, Nine Talmudic Readings... there is no debt to acquit. From the outset, I am not exonerated. I am originally in default. —Emmanuel (...)
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    The banality of death.Bob Plant - 2009 - Philosophy 84 (4):571-596.
    Notwithstanding the burgeoning literature on death, philosophers have tended to focus on the significance death has (or ought/ought not to have) for the one who dies. Thus, while the relevance one's own death has for others (and the significance others' deaths have for us) is often mentioned, it is rarely attributed any great importance to the purported real philosophical issues. This is a striking omission, not least because the deaths of others - and the anticipated effects our own death (...)
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  3. Moral Uncertainty, Proportionality and Bargaining.Patrick Kaczmarek, Harry R. Lloyd & Michael Plant - manuscript
    As well as disagreeing about how much one should donate to charity, moral theories also disagree about where one should donate. In light of this disagreement, how should the morally uncertain philanthropist allocate her donations? In many cases, one intuitively attractive option is for the philanthropist to split her donations across all of the charities that are recommended by moral views in which she has positive credence, with each charity’s share being proportional to her credence in the moral theories that (...)
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    Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature.Edward A. Goldman & David Stern - 1993 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 113 (3):500.
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    Rabbinic Literature and the History of Judaism in Late Antiquity: Challenges, Methodologies and New Approaches.Moshe Lavee - 2011 - In Lavee Moshe (ed.), Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine. pp. 319.
    This chapter examines the methodologies, new approaches, and challenges in the use of rabbinic literature to study the history of Judaism in late antiquity. It provides some examples that demonstrate some of the issues concerning the applicability of rabbinic literature to the study of Judaism in late-Roman Palestine. It concludes that rabbinic literature can serve as a historical source, especially when read indirectly and through the lens of well-defined theoretical frameworks, and when perceived as a rabbinic cultural (...)
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  6. The Embryo in Ancient Rabbinic Literature: Between Religious Law and Didactic Narratives: An Interpretive Essay.Etienne Lepicard - 2010 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 32 (1):21-41.
    At a time when bioethical issues are at the top of public and political agendas, there is a renewed interest in representations of the embryo in various religious traditions. One of the major traditions that have contributed to Western representations of the embryo is the Jewish tradition. This tradition poses some difficulties that may deter scholars, but also presents some invaluable advantages. These derive from two components, the search for limits and narrativity, both of which are directly connected with the (...)
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    Merkavah Mysticism and Rabbinic JudaismApocalyptic and Merkavah MysticismThe Merkabah in Rabbinic Literature.Peter Schäfer, Ithamar Gruenwald, David J. Halperin & Peter Schafer - 1984 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 104 (3):537.
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    Embodied cognition in classical rabbinic literature.Daniel H. Weiss - 2013 - Zygon 48 (3):788-807.
    Challenging earlier cognitivist approaches, recent theories of embodied cognition argue that the human mind and its functions are best understood as intimately bound up with the human body and its physiological dimensions. Some scholars have suggested that such theories, in departing from some core assumptions of the Western philosophical tradition, display significant similarities to certain non-Western traditions of thought, such as Buddhism. This essay extends such parallels to the Jewish tradition and argues that, in particular, classical rabbinic thought presents a (...)
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    Rabbinic literature and Greco-Roman philosophy.Henry Albert Fischel - 1973 - Leiden,: Brill.
    PART ONE THE "FOUR IN PARADISE" ANTI-EPICUREAN STEREOTYPE, BIOGRAPHY, AND PARODY Scholarship on Epicureanism, always lively and abundant, ...
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    Direct Divine Sanction, the Prohibition of Bloodshed, and the Individual as Image of God in Classical Rabbinic Literature.Daniel H. Weiss - 2012 - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 32 (2):23-38.
    This essay explores classical rabbinic literature's understanding of the prohibition of bloodshed alongside its understanding that "the image of God" corresponds to the physically embodied individual. This conception generates radical implications so that, apart from the narrow instance of a direct aggressor with intent to kill or rape, it is never legitimate to cause the death of any person, even in pursuit of a supposed "greater good." While notions of war and execution are retained in principle, the requirement of (...)
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  11. Studies in Sin and Atonement in the Rabbinic Literature in the First Century.A. Büchler & F. C. Grant - 1967
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    Research into Rabbinic Literature: An Attempt to Define the Status Quaestionis.Peter Schäfer - 2011 - In Schäfer Peter (ed.), Rabbinic Texts and the History of Late-Roman Palestine. pp. 51.
    This chapter aims to define to state of investigation of research into rabbinic literature. It describes the most important approaches in research on the basis of which rabbinic literature has been and is being studied. These include the traditional halakhic approach, the exploitative-apologetic approach, and the thematic approach. This chapter concludes that the questioning of the redactional identity of the individual works of rabbinic literature inevitably also disavows the research approach to the work at the level of (...)
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    Governmental and judicial ethics in the Bible and rabbinic literature.James Eugene Priest - 1980 - New York: KTAV Pub. House.
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    The Glory of the Scholar: The Nexus of Beauty and Intellect in Chinese and Rabbinic Literature.Aryeh Amihay & Lupeng Li - 2023 - Philosophy East and West 73 (3):531-555.
    Abstract:This study explores the relationship between beauty and intellect, often represented as diametrical opposites, in Chinese and Jewish texts, particularly with reference to Confucian and rabbinic texts. Four discourses concerning the nexus of beauty and intellect are presented: antagonistic, complementary, authentic, and epistemic. In both traditions, although more so in Confucianism, intellect is sometimes elided with moral virtue, adding another element to the discussion. The comparison of this theme in distant traditions seeks to highlight their shared resistance to a single (...)
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    The idea of history in rabbinic Judaism.Jacob Neusner - 2004 - Boston: Brill.
    Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College, Member of the Institute of Advanced Study, and Life Member of Clare Hall, ...
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  16. The Aroma of Righteousness: Scent and Seduction in Rabbinic Life and Literature.[author unknown] - 2011
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    A Man for All Seasons: David in Rabbinic and New Testament Literature.Jouette M. Bassler - 1986 - Interpretation 40 (2):156-169.
    The rabbis found a measure of David's importance in the importance of his son Solomon, and an echo of that same sentiment is also at work in the New Testament traditions about David's messianic son.
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    Confronting vulnerability: the body and the divine in rabbinic ethics.Jonathan Wyn Schofer - 2010 - London: University of Chicago Press.
    Aging and death -- Elimination -- Early death -- Drought -- Life cycles.
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    Pious irreverence: confronting God in rabbinic Judaism.Dov Weiss - 2017 - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
    Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).
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    Analysis and Argumentation in Rabbinic Judaism.Jacob Neusner - 2003 - University Press of Amer.
    Do ubiquitous modes of thought (types of analysis, types of argumentation) pervade the entire corpus of the Rabbinic writings of late antiquity and impart coherence to those diverse documents? Here are the results of a systematic probe of representative Halakhic and Aggadic documents in search of the answer to that question. The result is limited but one-sided: the answer is yes, they do. The inquiry proves urgent, because the bases for supposing the Rabbinic documents coalesce have diminished, and the differences (...)
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    Poverty, charity and the image of the poor in rabbinic texts from the land of Israel.Yael Wilfand Ben-Shalom - 2014 - Sheffield [England]: Sheffield Phoenix Press.
    In the rabbinic literature from the land of Israel the poor are depicted not as passive recipients of gifts and support, but as independent agents who are responsible for their own behaviour. Communal care for the needy was expected to go beyond their basic needs for food, clothing and shelter; the physical safety of the poor and the value of their time as well as their dignity and self-worth were also included in the scope of charity. In this monograph, (...)
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  22. A. Marmorstein, "The Doctrine of Merits in Old Rabbinical Literature" and "The Old Rabbinic Doctrine of God". [REVIEW]L. W. Stern - 1969 - The Thomist 33 (2):357.
     
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    Worship and ethics: a study in rabbinic Judaism.Max Kadushin - 1978 - Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
    CHAPTER I Introduction A. RABBINIC WORSHIP AND HALAKAH Rabbinic worship is personal experience and yet it is governed by Halakah, law. ...
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    Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants in Early 20th Century German Culture.Janet Janzen - 2016 - Brill | Rodopi.
    In _Media, Modernity and the Dynamic Plant_, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through early 20th century German culture. In examples from film and literature, she demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants to living beings.
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    Elohim ahavah esteṭiḳah: omanut emunah etiḳah esteṭiḳah u-misṭiḳah be-maḥshevet Ḥazal: masah ʻiyunit = God love aesthetics: art and faith, ethics, aesthetics and mysticism in Rabbinic thought: theoretical essay.Yaʻaḳov Maʻoz - 2021 - Yerushalayim: Sifre Niv.
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    The wars of Torah: the sublimation of violence in rabbinic piety.Martin S. Jaffee - 2006 - Eugene, Or.: University of Oregon Humanities Center.
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    Justice, Mercy, and Gender in Rabbinic Thought.Suzanne Last Stone - 1996 - Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 8 (1):139-177.
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    Nature's song: an elucidation of Perek shirah, the ancient text that lists the philosophical and ethical lessons of the natural world.Nosson Slifkin - 2001 - Nanuet, NY: Feldheim.
    A fascinating study of the nature of scientific laws, the age of the universe, and the development of life. Offers a unified approach to Torah and science.
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    The glaux: A plant in dioscorides.P. G. Maxwell-Stuart - 1978 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 122 (1):156-156.
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    The Glaux: a Plant in Dioscorides.P. G. Maxwell-Stuart - 1978 - Philologus: Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur Und Ihre Rezeption 122 (1-2):156-156.
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    The presence of the past, the pastness of the present: history, time, and paradigm in rabbinic Judaism.Jacob Neusner - 1995 - Bethesda, Md.: CDL Press.
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    The Victorians and the Visual Imagination.Kate Flint & Reader in Victorian and Modern English Literature and Fellow Kate Flint - 2000 - Cambridge University Press.
    Richly illustrated study drawing on art, literature and science to explore Victorian attitudes towards sight.
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    Hegel: an introduction.Raymond Plant - 1983 - Oxford, England: Blackwell.
    Philosophy is one of the most intimidating and difficult of disciplines, as any of its students can attest. This book is an important entry in a distinctive new series from Routledge: "The Great Philosophers." Breaking down obstacles to understanding the ideas of history's greatest thinkers, these brief, accessible, and affordable volumes offer essential introductions to the great philosophers of the Western tradition from Plato to Wittgenstein.In just 64 pages, each author, a specialist on his subject, places the philosopher and his (...)
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    Hegel.Raymond Plant - 1973 - Bloomington,: Indiana University Press.
    In his theological explorations, suggests Raymond Plant in this illuminating new guide, Hegel tackled the issues of interest to us all.
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    Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster.Julia Watts Belser - 2015 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the Babylonian Talmud's tractate on fasts in response to drought, this book shows how Bavli Taʿanit challenges Deuteronomy's claim that virtue can assure abundance and that misfortune is an unambiguous sign of divine rebuke. Employing a new method for analyzing lengthy talmudic narratives, Julia Watts Belser traces complex strands of aggadic dialectic to show how (...)
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    The Wretchedness of Belief: Wittgenstein on Guilt, Religion, and Recompense.Bob Plant - 2004 - Journal of Religious Ethics 32 (3):449 - 476.
    In "Culture and Value" Wittgenstein remarks that the truly "religious man" thinks himself to be, not merely "imperfect" or "ill," but wholly "wretched." While such sentiments are of obvious biographical interest, in this paper I show why they are also worthy of serious philosophical attention. Although the influence of Wittgenstein's thinking on the philosophy of religion is often judged negatively (as, for example, leading to quietist and/or fideist-relativist conclusions) I argue that the distinctly ethical conception of religion (specifically Christianity) that (...)
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    Justice and Friendship in Aristotle’s Social Philosophy.Harry La Plante - 1962 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 36:119-127.
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  38. Problem : Justice and Friendship in Aristotle's Social Philosophy.Harry La Plante - 1962 - Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 36:119.
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  39. The end(s) of philosophy: Rhetoric, therapy and Wittgenstein's pyrrhonism.Bob Plant - 2004 - Philosophical Investigations 27 (3):222–257.
    In Culture and Value Wittgenstein remarks: ‘Thoughts that are at peace. That's what someone who philosophizes yearns for’. The desire for such conceptual tranquillity is a recurrent theme in Wittgenstein's work, and especially in his later ‘grammatical-therapeutic’ philosophy. Some commentators (notably Rush Rhees and C. G. Luckhardt) have cautioned that emphasising this facet of Wittgenstein's work ‘trivialises’ philosophy – something which is at odds with Wittgenstein's own philosophical ‘seriousness’ (in particular his insistence that philosophy demands that one ‘Go the bloody (...)
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    Philosophical Diversity and Disagreement.Bob Plant - 2012 - Metaphilosophy 43 (5):567-591.
    Widespread and lasting consensus has not been philosophy's fate. Indeed, one of philosophy's most striking features is its ability to accommodate “not only different answers to philosophical questions” but also “total disagreement on what questions are philosophical” (Rorty 1995, 58). It is therefore hardly surprising that philosophers' responses to this metaphilosophical predicament have been similarly varied. This article considers two recent diagnoses of philosophical diversity: Kornblith and Rescher (respectively) claim that taking philosophical disagreement seriously does not lead to metaphilosophical scepticism. (...)
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    Doing justice to the Derrida–Levinas connection: A response to mark Dooley.Bob Plant - 2003 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 29 (4):427-450.
    Mark Dooley has recently argued (principally against Simon Critchley) that the attempt to establish too strong a ‘connection’ between Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas not only distorts crucial disparities between their respective philosophies, it also contaminates Derrida’s recent work with Levinas’s inherent ‘political naivety’. In short, on Dooley’s reading, Levinas is only of ‘inspirational value’ for Derrida. I am not concerned with defending Critchley’s own reading of the ‘Derrida–Levinas connection’. My objective is rather to demonstrate, first, the way in which (...)
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    M UCH IS AT stake in the development of transgenic plants. Genetic engineering has the potential to both positively and.Transgenic Plants - 2009 - In Vardit Ravitsky, Autumn Fiester & Arthur L. Caplan (eds.), The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics. Springer Publishing Company. pp. 435.
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    The Confessing Animal in Foucault and Wittgenstein.Bob Plant - 2006 - Journal of Religious Ethics 34 (4):533-559.
    In "The History of Sexuality", Foucault maintains that "Western man has become a confessing animal" (1990, 59), thus implying that "man" was not always such a creature. On a related point, Wittgenstein suggests that "man is a ceremonial animal" (1996, 67); here the suggestion is that human beings are, by their very nature, ritualistically inclined. In this paper I examine this crucial difference in emphasis, first by reconstructing Foucault's "genealogy" of confession, and subsequently by exploring relevant facets of Wittgenstein's later (...)
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    The Neo-Liberal State.Raymond Plant - 2009 - Oxford University Press.
    There is a world-wide debate at the moment about the appropriate role for the state in modern societies in the light of the world financial crisis. This book provides a comprehensive analysis and critique of Neo-liberal or economic liberal ideas on this issue.
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  45. Soul, Rational Soul and Person in Thomism.Harry La Plante - 1993 - Modern Schoolman 70 (3):209-216.
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    Gender and dialogue in the rabbinic prism.Admiel Kosman - 2012 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    The author applies the fields of gender studies, psychoanalysis, and literature to Talmudic texts. In opposition to the perception of Judaism as a legal system, he argues that the Talmud demands inner spiritual effort, to which the trait of humility and the refinement of the ego are central. This leads to the question of the attitude to the Other, in general, and especially to women. The author shows that the Talmud places the woman (who represents humility and good-heartedness in (...)
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    Science in adab literature.Paul Lettinck - 2011 - Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 21 (1):149-163.
    RésuméLes livres relevant du genre littéraire de l'adab présentent des matériaux sur un grand nombre de sujets, considérés sous des angles divers: sujets religieux, scientifiques, historiques, littéraires, etc. Ils propsent un savoir et, en même temps, de l'agrément aux gens éduqués. Nous considérerons ici deux œuvres relevant de l'adab, en tant qu'elles discutent leurs thèmes d'un point de vue scientifique: Faṣl al-Khiṭāb d'al-Tīfāshī et Mabāhij al-fikar wa-manāhij al-ʿibar d'al-Waṭwāṭ.L'œuvre d'al-Tīfāshī traite de sujets astronomiques et météorologiques. Les passages portant sur l'astronomie (...)
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    Political philosophy and social welfare: essays on the normative basis of welfare provision.Raymond Plant - 1980 - Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Edited by Harry Lesser & Peter Taylor-Gooby.
    First published in 1980. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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    The Sacrament of Ethical Reality: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Ethics for Christian Citizens.Stephen Plant - 2005 - Studies in Christian Ethics 18 (3):71-87.
    The paper explicates Bonhoeffer's dense statement, made in a 1932 lecture, that `Reality is the sacrament of [the ethical] command'. It begins with a summary of William T. Cavanaugh's rich description of the Eucharist as that act which makes the Church Christ's body, thereby constituting the true res publica. A comparison is drawn with Bonhoeffer's account of the sacramental foundation of the Church's public proclamation of God's ethical command. Bonhoeffer differs from Cavanaugh, I suggest, not only in his conviction that (...)
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    The influence of forensic oratory on Thucydides’ principles of method.Ian M. Plant - 1999 - Classical Quarterly 49 (1):62-73.
    In recent years, there has been considerable debate about the reliability of Herodotus: the attack on his honesty led by Fehling, the defence by Pritchett. The debate, it seems, may have begun at least as far back as Thucydides, but now Thucydides himself may have joined the school of liars. Badian has produced a new reading of Thucydides’ description of the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War, arguing that Thucydides deliberately set out to mislead the reader, misrepresenting the Spartans as the (...)
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