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Does Judaism Condone Violence? - Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
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Does Judaism Condone Violence? - Holiness and Ethics in the Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
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A philosophical case against religious violence We live in an age
beset by religiously inspired violence. Terms such as "holy war"
are the stock-in-trade of the evening news. But what is the
relationship between holiness and violence? Can acts such as murder
ever truly be described as holy? In Does Judaism Condone Violence?,
Alan Mittleman offers a searching philosophical investigation of
such questions in the Jewish tradition. Jewish texts feature
episodes of divinely inspired violence, and the position of the
Jews as God's chosen people has been invoked to justify violent
acts today. Are these justifications valid? Or does our
understanding of the holy entail an ethic that argues against
violence? Reconstructing the concept of the holy through a
philosophical examination of biblical texts, Mittleman finds that
the holy and the good are inextricably linked, and that our
experience of holiness is authenticated through its moral
consequences. Our understanding of the holy develops through
reflection on God's creation of the natural world, and our values
emerge through our relations with that world. Ultimately, Mittleman
concludes, religious justifications for violence cannot be
sustained. Lucid and incisive, Does Judaism Condone Violence? is a
powerful counterargument to those who claim that the holy is
irrational and amoral. With philosophical implications that extend
far beyond the Jewish tradition, this book should be read by anyone
concerned about the troubling connection between holiness and
violence.
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