Judaism, human rights, and human values

Author(s)

• Goodman, Lenn Evan

Bibliographic Information

Judaism, human rights, and human values

Lenn E. Goodman

Oxford University Press, c1998

• : cloth

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-183) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

In this important addition to the field of Jewish ethics, Goodman argues forcefully that the Jewish tradition has a significant contribution to make to the general discourse on ethical issues. After refuting the notion that "human rights" is a purely modern notion, Goodman traces the idea of such rights to its key biblical sources. He goes on to consider the works of medieval thinkers like Saadiah Goan and Moses Maimonides and then applies these and other foundational texts to such contemporary social and political issues as capital punishment, suicide, welfare, pornography, abortion, and nationalism.

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Details

• NCID: BA44806150
• ISBN:
  • 0195118340
• LCCN: 97036235
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxi, 202 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BM645.H85
  • DC21 : 296.3/82
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Human rights -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
  • LCSH : Human rights -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Mill, John Stuart, 1806-1873. On liberty
  • LCSH : Liberty
  • LCSH : Ethics, Jewish