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source of the moral or the ethical . The ethical and the moral require what appears to be the utterly unreasonable , or at least the nonreasonable . They have to be rooted , therefore , in the religious , in the transcendental , in the ...
source of the moral or the ethical . The ethical and the moral require what appears to be the utterly unreasonable , or at least the nonreasonable . They have to be rooted , therefore , in the religious , in the transcendental , in the ...
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Ethical and moral excellence is incompatible with " detached compassion . " It demands involvement of one's whole personality in a profound concern for the welfare of one's fellowman . The religious spirit , which sets " concerned ...
Ethical and moral excellence is incompatible with " detached compassion . " It demands involvement of one's whole personality in a profound concern for the welfare of one's fellowman . The religious spirit , which sets " concerned ...
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293 Judaism's rationalization of the moral and the ethical may therefore be viewed as its response to man's greatest of all needs , his need to preserve his rationality , which is the indispensable component of his sanity .
293 Judaism's rationalization of the moral and the ethical may therefore be viewed as its response to man's greatest of all needs , his need to preserve his rationality , which is the indispensable component of his sanity .
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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