Description: Further DetailsTitle: Human Nature & Jewish ThoughtCondition: NewSubtitle: Judaism's Case for Why Persons MatterISBN-10: 069114947XEAN: 9780691149479ISBN: 9780691149479Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/27/2015Description: This book explores one of the great questions of our time: How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true--namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean to be a person in a world of things? Alan Mittleman shows how the Jewish tradition provides rich ways of understanding human nature and personhood that preserve human dignity and distinction in a world of neuroscience, evolutionary biology, biotechnology, and pervasive scientism. These ancient resources can speak to Jewish, non-Jewish, and secular readers alike. Science may tell us what we are, Mittleman says, but it cannot tell us who we are, how we should live, or why we matter. Traditional Jewish thought, in open-minded dialogue with contemporary scientific perspectives, can help us answer these questions. Mittleman shows how, using sources ranging across the Jewish tradition, from the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud to more than a millennium of Jewish philosophy. Among the many subjects the book addresses are sexuality, birth and death, violence and evil, moral agency, and politics and economics.Throughout, Mittleman demonstrates how Jewish tradition brings new perspectives to--and challenges many current assumptions about--these central aspects of human nature. A study of human nature in Jewish thought and an original contribution to Jewish philosophy, this is a book for anyone interested in what it means to be human in a scientific age.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Alan L. MittlemanGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Social Sciences, Society & CultureBook Series: Library of Jewish IdeasRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Human Nature & Jewish Thought
Title: Human Nature & Jewish Thought
Subtitle: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter
ISBN-10: 069114947X
EAN: 9780691149479
ISBN: 9780691149479
Release Date: 04/27/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Human Nature and Jewish Thought : Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Judaism / History, Christian Theology / Anthropology, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Religious, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Judaism / Theology
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Author: Alan L. Mittleman
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Library of Jewish Ideas Ser.
Format: Hardcover
