The Emergence of Ethical ManKTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2005 - 214 páginas For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered the question what it means to be human. Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, known universally as the Rav--the rabbi par excellence--answers the question in The Emergence of Ethical Man, edited by Michael Berger. Relying on both scientific research and classical Jewish sources, Soloveitchik explains how a thoroughly naturalistic setting could give birth to human personality--and to Judaism's expectation of moral character and self-transcendence. The resulting religious anthropology is a startlingly fresh reading of the early chapters of Genesis, and highlights Judaism's distinctive view among those of other religious traditions. |
Índice
Man as Organic Being | 3 |
Man as a Carnivorous Being | 31 |
Man and His Environment | 49 |
Man as Animal and the Emergence | 65 |
The Emergence of Human Personality | 85 |
The Tree of Knowledge and the Emergence | 95 |
Further Consequences of the Sin Fear | 129 |
The Charismatic Personality Abraham | 149 |
Charismatic Man as a Historical Personality | 163 |
Charismatic Man as Prophet Moses | 179 |
CONCLUSION | 203 |
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Abraham Adam animal aspect beast becomes benei ha-elohim Bible Biblical biological bird blessed blood chapter charismatic personality children of Israel coexistence cognitive command concept consciousness cosmic covenant creation creature demonic denotes desire Deut divine dominion drive dynamic E-lokim Egypt Emergence of Ethical encounter environment esthetic esthetic experience eternal ethical ethical norm ethos evil existence existential expresses flesh fruitful and multiply Genesis God's Halakhah halakhic hamas Hashem Havayah hedonic historical human personality idea identical imitatio Dei individual instinctive Jewish Judaism land living Lord Maimonides man's means metaphysical moral law Moses Mother Earth motif motivation Nahmanides nature never objective ontic organic orgiastic original sin performance plant pleasure primordial promise prophetic Rabbi Rav's reality realization realm relationship serpent sexual Shabbat Shehitah Sinai Soloveitchik specific technical intelligence tension terefah term terumah thou tion Torah transcendental Tree of Knowledge tumah tzelem unique unity va-yomer Wolowelsky words