Elliot N. Dorff: In Search of the Good Life

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-27901-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers

Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, the Sol and Anne Dorff Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Rector of American Jewish University in Los Angeles, is one of today’s leading Jewish ethicists. Writing extensively on the intersection of law, morality, science, religion, and medicine, Dorff offers an authoritative and non-Orthodox interpretation of Jewish law. As a leader in the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, he has shaped the religious practices of Conservative Jews. In serving on national advisory committees and task forces, he has helped to articulate a distinctive Jewish voice on contested bioethical and biomedical issues. An analytic philosopher by training, Dorff has endorsed pluralism, arguing that Jewishness best flourishes in the context of American pluralism, and he has worked closely with non-Jews to advance religious pluralism in America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava

Hughes, Aaron W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 20./21. Jahrhundert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Contributors
Editors’ Introduction to the Series
Elliot N. Dorff: An Intellectual Portrait Jonathan Crane
The Interaction of Judaism and Morality: Defining, Motivating, and Educating a Moral Person and Society Elliot N. Dorff
Applying Jewish Law to New Circumstances Elliot N. Dorff
Donations from Ill-Gotten Gain: A Jewish Legal Perspective Elliot N. Dorff
In Search of God Elliot N. Dorff
Interview with Elliot N. Dorff Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.