DSpace Collection: Includes lectures and conversations between religious philosophers of different faiths.Includes lectures and conversations between religious philosophers of different faiths.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/45902024-03-28T17:12:30Z2024-03-28T17:12:30ZPOL 1401: Great Political Thinkers: Ancient Political ThoughtRogachevsky, Neilhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/77612021-11-17T22:36:40Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: POL 1401: Great Political Thinkers: Ancient Political Thought
Authors: Rogachevsky, Neil
Abstract: Course Description It has been commonly said that Western Civilization—of which America has long been considered a part—was formed through the combination of, or creative tension between, the ideas typified by two cities: Athens and Jerusalem. Scholars have recently highlighted Biblical teachings ideas on questions we might now call political. But it is in the political thought of Greece that we find active philosophic reflection on the nature of politics and an argument for the centrality of politics in human life. One can even go further: in the writers of Greek antiquity we encounter the argument that the study of politics may be the key to understanding everything. This course aims to offer an introductory tour through the political thought of several of the greatest minds of Greece. But their insights are not only “Greek” insights; they remain relevant and in need of reckoning with in our times. Those insights relate to questions including: what is the relationship between individual excellence and communal excellence? Is thought superior to action or is action superior to thought? What is justice and how much justice can be realized in the world? What does war teach us about human nature? What is virtue and what is its relation to laws? To what extent are knowledge and politics tied together? These questions, and many more, will be addressed through a careful and close reading of seminal texts of ancient political thought: Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian war, Plato’s Republic, and Aristotle’s Politics. Read in tandem, these works present difficult and richly illuminating accounts of fundamental questions thoughtful people face in all times and places
Description: Course syllabus / YU only2021-01-01T00:00:00ZJHIS 4938H - A Topics: Malbim & Modernity / JPHI 1918H – A Topics: Malbim & ModernityLerner, Dovhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/75542021-10-27T16:04:53Z2021-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: JHIS 4938H - A Topics: Malbim & Modernity / JPHI 1918H – A Topics: Malbim & Modernity
Authors: Lerner, Dov
Abstract: Course Overview
The aim of this class is to explore the thought of one of the most well-known Jewish exegetes of the nineteenth century—Malbim—with a heavy emphasis on his historical and intellectual context.
We will survey the major intellectual movements of modern Europe—the Enlightenment and Romanticism—through the prism of some of the key texts that defined the respective projects, and then consider their impact on the role of the Bible in European life, and the resulting crises which faced the newly emancipated Jews of Europe. After examining the attempts of Mendelssohn, Meklenburg, and Hirsch, to conserve Jewish tradition, we will turn to Malbim. The theses of his sermons and the themes of his exegesis will be explored alongside some of the biblically inspired literature of the age—including Lord Byron’s Cain. We will conclude the course with an assessment of how Malbim’s claims have fared over the past one hundred and fifty years.
Description: SCW syllabus / YU only2021-01-01T00:00:00ZPriestly predicaments : analysing "Sof Tuma Latzet" according to Maimonides.Shabtai, Davidhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/45962019-08-12T18:45:47Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Priestly predicaments : analysing "Sof Tuma Latzet" according to Maimonides.
Authors: Shabtai, David
Abstract: Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is one of the most distinguished rabbinic leaders of our day and a world-renowned spokesman for Judaism. To honor him upon his retirement from the chief rabbinate of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, his colleagues from the London Beth Din and the United Synagogue have produced a volume of stellar rabbinic scholarship. In this volume, eminent rabbis such as Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein and Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz join together with many others in tribute to a scholar and a leader.
Description: Pamphlet2015-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Source of Faith Examined.Segal, Aaronhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/45952021-03-24T20:12:46Z2015-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The Source of Faith Examined.
Authors: Segal, Aaron
Abstract: Someone who wants to understand the content of Jewish faith can pick up nearly any article or listen to any number of sihot by Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, and find an illuminating treatment of some aspect of that issue. The same can be said of someone who seeks to know what being a ma’amin [believer] entails, what sort of intellectual stance and emotional attitudes are required in order to be a faithful Jew. But the same cannot be said of someone who asks, especially in light of everything else he knows and all the intellectual challenges he confronts as a religious Jew, whether he should or at least may have such faith. This essay explores how and why religious ethics, theology, and the phenomenology of faith figure prominently in R. Lichtenstein’s thought; whereas normative epistemology does not.
Description: Scholarly journal article2015-01-01T00:00:00Z