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Legal systems generally agree with the rabbinic maxim that adam muad l'olam , 18 a human being is always responsible for the consequences of his acts regardless of the nature of the intention that motivated them .
Legal systems generally agree with the rabbinic maxim that adam muad l'olam , 18 a human being is always responsible for the consequences of his acts regardless of the nature of the intention that motivated them .
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150 In this instance the biblical law which was circumvented was in itself obviously motivated by the high ethical principle of giving one's fellow man a chance to start anew and not to be crushed forever by a debt which necessity had ...
150 In this instance the biblical law which was circumvented was in itself obviously motivated by the high ethical principle of giving one's fellow man a chance to start anew and not to be crushed forever by a debt which necessity had ...
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As we noted in our text , since no one can foretell all the consequences of his act , what he does may be motivated by what we designated as an unethical intention , and yet could have " caused more pleasure " than any other act which ...
As we noted in our text , since no one can foretell all the consequences of his act , what he does may be motivated by what we designated as an unethical intention , and yet could have " caused more pleasure " than any other act which ...
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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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