Foundations for a Jewish Environmental Ethic
Author: Michal R. Smart
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13:
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Waste Not
Author: Tanhum YOREH
Publisher: Suny Press
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781438476704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the development of bal tashḥit, the Jewish prohibition against wastefulness and destruction, from its biblical origins to the contemporary environmental movement.
Judaism And Environmental Ethics
Author: Martin D. Yaffe
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2002-05-09
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0585383650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMartin D. Yaffe's Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader is a well-conceived exploration of three interrelated questions: Does the Hebrew Bible, or subsequent Jewish tradition, teach environmental responsibility or not? What Jewish teachings, if any, appropriately address today's environmental crisis? Do ecology, Judaism, and philosophy work together, or are they at odds with each other in confronting the current crisis? Yaffe's extensive introduction analyzes and appraises the anthologized essays, each of which serves to deepen and enrich our understanding of current reflection on Judaism and environmental ethics. Brought together in one volume for the first time, the most important scholars in the field touch on diverse disciplines including deep ecology, political philosophy, and biblical hermeneutics. This ambitious book illustrates—precisely because of its interdisciplinary focus—how longstanding disagreements and controversies may spark further interchange among ecologists, Jews, and philosophers. Both accessible and thoroughly scholarly, this dialogue will benefit anyone interested in ethical and religious considerations of contemporary ecology.
A Short History of Jewish Ethics
Author: Alan L. Mittleman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-01-17
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 140518941X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Short History of Jewish Ethics traces the development of Jewish moral concepts and ethical reflection from its Biblical roots to the present day. Offers an engaging and thoughtful account of Jewish ethics Brings together and discusses a broad range of historical sources covering two millennia of writings and conversations Combines current scholarship with original insights Written by a major internationally recognized scholar of Jewish philosophy and ethics
The Legacy of Hans Jonas
Author: Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-06-25
Total Pages: 621
ISBN-13: 9004167226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn international, interdisciplinary, and interreligious retrospective examination of Hans Jonas (1903-1993) that engages his ideas in light of Existentialism, utopian thought, process philosophy and theology, Zionism, and environmentalism.
Profits and Prophets
Author: Nancy Ruth Fox
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-07-06
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 3030405567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of potential, perceived, and real conflicts and similarities between market economics and Jewish social justice. The book’s ultimate focus is on public policy issues. In the first two chapters, the author presents the conceptual and theoretical foundations of market economics and Jewish social justice. Subsequent chapters analyze minimum wage, immigration, climate change, and usury from both market economics and Jewish social justice perspectives, discussing conflicts, and, if they exist, similarities.
Greening the College Curriculum
Author: Jonathan Collett
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2013-04-10
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 161091080X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreening the College Curriculum provides the tools college and university faculty need to meet personal and institutional goals for integrating environmental issues into the curriculum. Leading educators from a wide range of fields, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, literature, journalism, philosophy, political science, and religion, describe their experience introducing environmental issues into their teaching. The book provides: a rationale for including material on the environment in the teaching of the basic concepts of each discipline guidelines for constructing a unit or a full course at the introductory level that makes use of environmental subjects sample plans for upper-level courses a compendium of annotated resources, both print and nonprint Contributors to the volume include David Orr, David G. Campbell, Lisa Naughton, Emily Young, John Opie, Holmes Rolston III, Michael E. Kraft, Steven Rockefeller, and others.
Speaking Torah Vol 1
Author: Arthur Green
Publisher: Jewish Lights Publishing
Published: 2013-07-23
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781683363057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPowerful Hasidic teachings made accessible by some of the world's preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. Volume 1 covers Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus, and the history of early Hasidism and the central teachings of the Maggid's school.
The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics
Author: Aaron Levine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-11-12
Total Pages: 715
ISBN-13: 0199780560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe interaction of Judaism and economics encompasses many different dimensions. Much of this interaction can be explored through the way in which Jewish law accommodates and even enhances commercial practice today and in past societies. From this context, The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics explores how Judaism as a religion and Jews as a people relate to the economic sphere of life in modern society as well as in the past. Bringing together an astonishingly strong group of top scholars, the volume approaches the subject from a variety of angles, providing one of the most comprehensive, well-rounded, and authoritative accounts of the intersections of Judaism and economics yet produced. Aaron Levine first offers a brief overview of the nature and development of Jewish law as a legal system, then presents essays from a variety of angles and areas of expertise. The book offers contributions on economic theory in the bible and in the Talmud; on the interaction between Jewish law, ethics, modern society, and public policy; then presents illuminating explorations of Judaism throughout economic history and the ways in which economics has influenced Jewish history. The Oxford Handbook of Judaism and Economics at last offers an extensive and welcome resource by leading scholars and economists on the vast and delightfully complex relationship between economics and Judaism.
Jewish Ethics: The Basics
Author: Geoffrey D. Claussen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-12-04
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 104022380X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJewish Ethics: The Basics demonstrates how ancient and contemporary ideas have shaped and reshaped Jewish traditions about how to act toward others. Readers are introduced to foundational questions, controversies, and diverse ethical conclusions developed by Jewish thinkers throughout the ages. Topics addressed include: • Assumptions about Authority • Love, Compassion, Justice and Humility • Human Rights, War, Land and Power • Gender and Sexuality • Personal and Social Ethics • Environmental and Animal Ethics • Bioethical Issues Concise, readable and engaging, this is the ideal introduction for anyone interested in religious ethics, secular traditions, Judaism, and the field of Jewish ethics.
