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Jewish Thought in Dialogue: Essays on Thinkers, Theologies and Moral Theories

David Shatz
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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 5 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Jewish thought.

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Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism

TL;DR: Pessin this paper develops a "theology of desire" at the heart of Ibn Gabirol's eleventh-century cosmo-ontology and challenges centuries of received scholarship on his work, including his so-called Doctrine of Divine Will.
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The healthcare worker at risk during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Jewish ethical perspective.

TL;DR: The current COVID-19 pandemic has raised many questions and dilemmas for modern day ethicists and healthcare providers and there is agreement for ethical, professional and societal reasons that healthcare workers are required to put themselves in harm’s way to care for their patients.
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Hermann Cohen in Disguise—Review of Dov Schwartz, Religion or Halakha: The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik

Alex Sztuden
- 01 Feb 2013 - 
TL;DR: Schwartz as mentioned in this paper argued that Halakhic Man is an esoteric work, and that the true doctrines hidden in Halachic Man are meant for the discerning reader, who can pierce through the veil of his complex literary style and apparent contradictions and discover the real nature of halachic man, who is not a religious figure as that term is.
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Nomos and Narrative in Jewish Law: The Care of the Dying Patient and the Prayer of the Handmaid

TL;DR: Jewish decisors where also called upon to address the issue of whether all patients should receive these life extending treatments or be allowed to die without aggressive treatment.
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Jewish philosophy as a Direction of the World philosophy of Modern and Contemporary Times

TL;DR: In contrast to antiquity and the Middle Ages, when philosophy was a rather marginal part of Jewish thought, in Modern Times Jewish philosophy is formed as a distinct part of the World philosophy as mentioned in this paper.