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On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy; with a New Introduction(The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy; with a New Introduction(The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

          
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What is fair? How do rights join hands with generosity? How can punishment be justified? Is there recompense for human suffering? What sense can we make of immortality, or of the idea of a messianic age? In On Justice Lenn Goodman offers the first general theory of justice for more than a century to tap the riches of the Jewish tradition—biblical, rabbinic, and philosophical—and bring its texts into dialogue with the classic works of Western ethics and political philosophy. Against the backdrop of conversation he opens up—with Saadiah, Halevi, Maimonides, and Spinoza, with Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Rawls—Goodman develops a fresh, ontological approach to the core issues of ethics, politics, and the human condition. The original ideas of On Justice will engage both Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers and students of society and ethics.

Table of Contents:
Preface to the Paperback Edition Part I Toward a Theory of Justice 1 The Basis of Exchange The Idea of Community • What is Rationality in Exchange? • Katzya and Alexander 2 Desert and Consent Some Limitations of Consent • The Consent of the Governed • Virtual Consent 3 An Objective Theory of Deserts Formal and Material Deserts • Is the Good Community a Utopian Ideal? • Natural Deserts and the Mosaic Law Part II Punishment 1 The Logic of Punishment The Problem of Legitimating Punishment • Crime and Telishment • Punishing the Guilty to Requite the Innocent 2 Retribution and Deserts Reform and Retribution • Diminution of Deserts • Retributive Proportion 3 Punishment versus Vengeance Biblical Vengeance • War Against Crime? • Judgment, Human and Divine Part III Recompense 1 Deontological and Teleological Ethics The Dialectic of Teleology and Deontology • Deontology, Teleology and Naturalism • Complementary Vanishing Points 106 2 Extrinsic Rewards Disclaiming a Reward • Reclaiming a Reward • Toward a Synthesis 3 Intrinsic Rewards Biblical Vignettes • A Non-Tragic Vision • An Open-ended Goal Part IV Do Beings Receive What They Deserve? 1 Moral, Metaphysical, and Natural Justice Two Confusions of Natural with Moral Justice • Justice and the Expression of Natures • Justice and Mercy, Favor and Grace 157 2 The Working out of Natural Justice Action and Character • Agency and Accountability • The Sins of the Fathers 167 3 Biblical Prophecy and Natural Justice The Former and the Latter Rain • Natural Justice and Reason • God’s Act in Nature Part V The Messianic Age 1 Variations on a Theme Messianism and Belief • A Middle Ground • Messianism and Realism 199 2 Demythologizing the Messiah Who is the Messiah? • The Messianic Role • The Messianic Age and the Nations of the World 3 Accessible Messianism The Messianic Age as a Moral Revolution • Is Jewish Messianism Romantic? • Today, if... Part VI Whereafter? 1 Scripture and Immortality The Search for a Biblical Afterworld • Immortality versus Afterlife • Eternal Punishment? 2 What are we to Expect? Recompense for Finitude? • Multiple Lives? • Transcendence of the Now 3 Immortality Within the World Whereafter • Eternity: its Immediacy and its Exclusion • The Cultivation of Immortality Notes Index of Passages General Index


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  • ISBN-13: 9781904113706
  • Publisher: Liverpool University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 454 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1904113702
  • Publisher Date: 20 Mar 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 326
  • Series Title: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
  • Sub Title: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy; with a New Introduction
  • Width: 155 mm


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