Hermann Cohen's Ethics / edited by Robert Gibbs.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Gibbs, Robert, 1958-

Conference Name:

Shoshana Shier Symposium on Judaism and Modernity (1st : 2001 : University of Toronto)

Series:

Studies in European Judaism ; v. 14.

Studies in European Judaism, 1568-5004 ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918. Ethik des reinen Willens--Congresses.

Cohen, Hermann.

Free will and determinism--Congresses.

Free will and determinism.

Jewish ethics--Congresses.

Jewish ethics.

Jewish philosophy--Congresses.

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essays assembled here represent the leading Hermann Cohen scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel. Emerging from their efforts is a new set of explorations both in Cohen's own system and also in his relation to a wide-range of subsequent thinkers. They open Cohen's "Ethics of Pure Will" in two ways. First, they show us the deep questions that are operating within Cohen's texts, and second they raise questions for ethics itself, particularly in relation to Jewish tradition. That specific topic, the primacy of ethics for Judaism, received one of its most philosophically rigorous treatments in Cohen's work, where thinking of the relation of ethics and Judaism became a truly philosophical task.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Preface Hermann Cohen's Ethics

The Ethics in Hermann Cohen's Philosophical System

Ethik als Lehre vom Menschen: Eine Einführung in Hermann Cohens Ethik des reinen Willens

Judaism as a "Method" with Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig

The Existence of the Ideal in Hermann Cohen's Ethics

Physiology of the Pure Will: Concepts of Moral Energy in Hermann Cohen's Ethics

On the Idea of God in Cohen's Ethik

Hermann Cohen. Ethics of Maimonides: Residues of Jewish Philosophy

Traumatized

The Ties Between Walter Benjamin and Hermann Cohen: A Generally Neglected Chapter in the History of the Impact of Cohen's Philosophy

In the Name of a Narrative Education: Hermann Cohen and Historicism Reconsidered

Hermann Cohen and Leo Strauss

Hermann Cohen and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik on Repentence

INDEX.

Notes:

Along with some new contributions, most of the papers were presented at a three day conference held at the University of Toronto in August 2001.

Also published as vol. 13, 1-3 of "The Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-39994-9

9786611399948

90-474-1067-X

OCLC:

319492665