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Natural Law in Judaism de David Novak

Natural Law in Judaism

Autor David Novak
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 ian 2008
This 1998 book presents a theory of natural law, significant for the study of Judaism, philosophy and comparative ethics. It demonstrates that the assumption that Judaism has no natural law theory to speak of is simply wrong. The book shows how natural law theory, using a variety of different terms for itself throughout the ages, has been a constant element in Jewish thought. The book sorts out the varieties of Jewish natural law theory, illuminating their strengths and weaknesses. It also presents a case for utilizing natural law theory in order to deal with theological and philosophical questions in Judaism's ongoing reflection on its own meaning and its meaning for the wider world. David Novak combines great erudition in the Jewish tradition, the history of philosophy and law, and the imagination to argue for Judaism in the context of current debates, both theoretical and practical.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521055680
ISBN-10: 0521055687
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 139 x 215 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; 1. The challenge of modern secularity; 2. Scriptural foundations; 3. Jewish ethics and natural law; 4. Maimonides' teleology of the law; 5. Natural law and created nature; 6. Noahide law and human personhood; 7. Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Recenzii

'I have known Professor Novak for several decades. I have not ceased to be astonished by his versatility, by his thorough familiarity with the full range of classical Jewish literature, and by his talent for finding matching analogies in general world literature. He combines both the traditional scholar's facility in conceptual analysis with the critical scholar's insistence upon exactitude and accuracy. Only Professor Novak with his profound knowledge of Judaica and his acumen in philosophy could have written such a sensible and reliable book on Natural Law in Judaism which embraces also law, philosophy and ethics. The manner in which he integrates these subjects is a scholarly feat, the intellect at its best.' David Weiss Halivni, Columbia University
'While the phrase 'natural law' is not common among Jewish thinkers, who tent to polarise between those who insist on the utter particularity of the Torah and those who settle for a secular human rights agenda, David Novak shows how the reality is presupposed for there to be a people addressed by Torah: natural law is the cardinal presupposition of Sinai! Novak's critical retrieval of classical sources of Maimonides and Nachmanides is coupled with a clear insistence that without an effective natural law the universal significance of the genocide at Auschwitz will inevitably be diverted into a monopolizing claim to victimhood. In short, Judaism needs natural law not just to find common space with others, but to be its authentic self.' David Burrell, University of Notre Dame
'In this remarkable book David Novak has provided the most compelling account and defense of natural law we have had in modernity. His book hopefully will be read as eagerly by Christians as Jews. We all have much to learn from Novak not only as a philosopher but particularly as a theologian.' Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
'[Novak's] book will be of value not only to participants in the current debate about natural law but to anyone interested in contemporary intellectual and social implications of biblical interpretation.' Society for Old Testament Study
' … Novak's argument … addresses the dilemmas of Jewish modernity determined by three momentous experiences: civil emancipation, the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel. His book will be of value not only to participants in the current debate about natural law but to anyone interested in contemporary intellectual and social implications of biblical interpretation.' Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

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This 1998 book presents a theory of natural law, significant for the study of Judaism, philosophy and comparative ethics.