Jewish Religious and Philosophical Ethics

Curtis Hutt is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His Ph.D. is from Brown University in Religion and Critical Thought. He works primarily on the ethics of the representation of the religious past with a focus on the history of Judaisms and Jerusalem.Halla Kim is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA. He specializes in Kant/German Idealism, modern Jewish thoughts and Korean philosophy. He is the editor (with Steven Hoeltzel) of Kant, Fichte, and the Legacy of Transcendental Idealism (2014). Berel Dov Lerner received his PhD in philosophy from Tel Aviv University. He is an Associate Professor of philosophy at Israel's Western Galilee College and has authored the book Rules, Magic, and Instrumental Reason (Routledge 2002) and many articles in philosophy and Jewish studies.

• Introduction Part 1: Rabbinics 1. Angels versus Humans in the Moral Psychology of R. Meir Simhah Ha-Kohen of Dvinsk, Berel Dov Lerner 2. Angels, Humans, and the Struggle For Moral Excellence in the Writings of Meir Simḥah of Dvinsk and Simḥah Zissel of Kelm, Geoggrey Claussen 3. Wise Hukkim and the Byzantine Sermonic Ideology of a Divine Fiat, Elisha S. Ancselovits Part 2: Philosophy 4. Is Maimonides a Moral Relativist? Lenn E. Goodman 5. Spinoza’s Baffling View of Biblical Morality, Michah Gottlieb 6. Hermann Cohen on the Concept of Law in Ethics, Halla Kim 7. Expressions of Caring: Relational Virtues in Buber’s Ethics, Laura Grams 8. Cosmopolitan Tolerance and Asymmetrical Ethics: Adorno, Levinas, Derrida, Eric S. Nelson Part 3: Contemporary Challenges 9. Textual Morality: On the Neglect of Ritual in Applied Jewish Ethics, Ari Schick 10. A Critical Reading of American-Liberal Jewish Engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Yakir Englander 11. Afro-Jewish Ethics? Lewis Gordon 12. Jewish History and Memory: Historiographical Ethics after Yerushalmi’s Zakhor, Curtis Hutt