{"title":"A Classical Jewish Approach to “The Normative Question”","authors":"E. Melis","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0016","url":null,"abstract":"One of the fundamental questions in analytic meta-ethics is what Christine Korsgaard calls “the normative question.” It is a question that typically arises when a moral agent is confronted with a difficult moral obligation, and as a result, asks himself, “Must I really do this? Why must I do it?” In mainstream analytic philosophy, the responses to this question invariably take the form of a philosophical argument that starts from (allegedly) universally compelling premises, and draws from them the conclusion that, therefore, we really must do what morality requires of us—that morality is really binding for us. In this chapter, however, I explore a fundamentally different approach to the “normative question” based on (or inspired by) classical Judaism. First I formulate a parallel “normative question,” as it would arise in a Jewish context, and seek the appropriate classical Jewish response to it. Then, I offer a way of applying it to morality in general.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115265482","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Fabric of Faith","authors":"H. Wettstein","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0010","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Emunah (Hebrew for “faith”) is not to be thought of as cognitive assent to a proposition. It is no mere state of the head, something internal to consciousness. It is rather, in my language, a stance, an attitude in an almost nautical sense, as if the agent were facing, tracking the sun. And as with tracking the sun, faith is dynamic; one does not face God in a static way. Faith concerns living in God’s tempo. What God wants of us, what He needs, changes over time and circumstances. In this chapter, I begin to unpack these metaphors for faith.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129165469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Proof of Exodus","authors":"Tyron Goldschmidt","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter defends the historicity of central Jewish narratives: the Exodus from Egypt and the revelation at Mount Sinai. Part 2 draws from Saadya Gaon, Yehuda HaLevi, and Jonathan Edwards: it identifies a principle about what kinds of national traditions are true, and then applies the principle to show that the Exodus tradition is true. Part 3 draws from Jonathan Edwards, Charles Leslie, and Ezra Zuckerman-Sivan: it develops the principle and the case for the Exodus tradition further. Part 4 replies to ten objections against the argument, focusing especially on recent objections from Yehuda Gellman.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130148999","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dispassion, God, and Nature","authors":"Daniel H. Frank","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Spinoza is a severe critic of Maimonides and the whole medieval theistic tradition. Nevertheless, as recent philosophical scholarship has shown, Spinoza shares much with Maimonides in his own philosophical outlook. In this chapter I point to an important commonality in their respective views of the human good, namely the emphasis each places upon dispassion as a corollary of any deep understanding of God and/or nature.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"221 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121860464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Jurisprudential Puzzle as Old as the Talmud","authors":"Jeffrey S. Helmreich","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Judges face an unenviable predicament: on the one hand, they are charged with applying the law as it is, rather than as they’d like it to be. On the other hand, legal sources can often be read so as to support opposite rulings. I explore how the Talmudic version of the problem presents a uniquely paralyzing conundrum for legal decisors. The problem arises in the interaction of various Talmudic principles. One is the principle of pluralism: The same act in the same circumstances may rightly be ruled permitted or forbidden, the same food kosher or unkosher. The second principle, I’ll call faithfulness: Rabbinic decisors, in ruling on a case, must try to find the correct answer. We can shed light on the contemporary jurisprudential problem by comparing it to the ancient and enduring version of it laid bare in the Talmud.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129648014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Novick, Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, A. Segal
{"title":"Jewish Studies and Analytic Philosophy of Judaism","authors":"T. Novick, Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, A. Segal","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0018","url":null,"abstract":"To what extent are the methodological assumptions of contemporary Jewish studies in conflict with the project of this book? Tzvi Novick begins a discussion with the editors in order to bring the contours of this issue sharply into focus.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132362141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Catharsis and the Epistemology of Repentance in the Talmud and Jewish Law","authors":"Dani Rabinowitz","doi":"10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/OSO/9780198811374.003.0006","url":null,"abstract":"The psychology of repentance has dominated the attention of both Jewish theologians and western philosophers at the expense of the epistemology of repentance. This chapter is an attempt to rectify this lacuna. In an attempt to elucidate a somewhat obscure Talmudic debate about confession with the tools of current analytic epistemology, the cathartic value of repentance is thrown into sharp relief. The results reached here naturally generalize to many theological traditions within Christianity and Islam which similarly recognize the cathartic role of repentance.","PeriodicalId":438846,"journal":{"name":"Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age","volume":"217 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133321712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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