Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought

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Contents Preface Introduction Part One: Fundamentals and First Principles Autonomy and Community ix 1 Eugene B. Borowitz 9 Autonomy and Jewish Thought Kenneth Seeskin 21 Tradition, Heritage, and Autonomy in Modern Jewish Thought Ze'ev Levy 41 Part Two: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives The Individual and the Community in the Normative Traditions of Judaism Lenn E. Goodman 69 The Elimination of Perplexity: Socrates and Maimonides as Guides of the Perplexed Daniel H. Frank 121 Autonomy, Community, Authority: Hermann Cohen, Carl Schmitt, Leo Strauss Martin D. Yaffe 143 A Jewish Context for the Social Ethics of Marx and Levinas Robert Gibbs 161 Individual and Communal Forgiveness Elliot N. Dorff 193 Contributors 219 Subject Index 221 Name Index 227 ...