In this highly provocative and informed work, Byron L. Sherwin, one
of the leading Jewish ethicists of our time, demonstrates how the
wisdom of the past -- found in classical texts that form Jewish
religious tradition -- can forcefully address the moral
perplexities of the present.
In setting out a contemporary agenda for Jewish ethics, Sherwin
debunks common misconceptions about Jewish ethics and distinguishes
between the ethics of Judaism and various forms of secular and
religious ethics. He shows, for example, how the ethics of Judaism
and the ethics of Jews often are at odds, how the Judeo-Christian
ethic is an obsolete myth, and how Jewish and Christian ethics
radically differ both in terms of their theological assumptions and
in their applied methodologies.
Sherwin delineates a methodology for Jewish ethics, which he
applies to a wide variety of issues such as health and healing,
euthanasia, reproductive biotechnology, cloning, parent-child
relationships, economic justice, repentance or "moral
rehabilitation, " and the relationship between humans and
machines.
Drawing on a wide range of biblical, rabbinical, Jewish
philosophical and kabbalistic sources, Jewish Ethics for the
Twenty-First Century links the biblical term "image of God" to
moral freedom, human creativity and the challenge of becoming God's
"partner in creation" and a coauthor of the Torah.
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