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Page 54
The " natural " abhorrence to the act of killing another human being is in itself not sufficient to explain that prohibition at a time when the practice was still widespread and appeared to " make sense . " It made , and continues to ...
The " natural " abhorrence to the act of killing another human being is in itself not sufficient to explain that prohibition at a time when the practice was still widespread and appeared to " make sense . " It made , and continues to ...
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The postulates that God is holy , in the Biblical - Rabbinic sense , and that man is created in God's image , constitute the rationalization of the ethical and the moral . Given these postulates the mind cannot rationally challenge the ...
The postulates that God is holy , in the Biblical - Rabbinic sense , and that man is created in God's image , constitute the rationalization of the ethical and the moral . Given these postulates the mind cannot rationally challenge the ...
Page 93
One conscious of the ethical and moral stirrings within him cannot but feel a sense of awe and wonder at their presence . He cannot but feel that they above all bestow upon him a sense of ineffable dignity . They set him above the beast ...
One conscious of the ethical and moral stirrings within him cannot but feel a sense of awe and wonder at their presence . He cannot but feel that they above all bestow upon him a sense of ineffable dignity . They set him above the beast ...
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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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