Jewish Ethics as Dialogue: Using Spiritual Language to Re-Imagine a Better World

by M. Pava

Overview

Blending the deep traditions of Jewish humanism with modern philosophical expressions, this book argues that Jewish values are not fixed propositions embedded in written form that can be easily handed off from one generation to the next.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230618886
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	11/18/2009
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

MOSES PAVA is the Alvin Einbender Professorial Chair in Business Ethics at the Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University, New York, USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: JEWISH ETHICS AS DIALOGUE The Case for Dialogue Increasing Moral Capital Through Moral Imagination The Art of Ethical Dialogue PART II: SPIRITUALITY AND DIALOGUE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD Intelligent Spirituality in Business Spirituality in (and out) of the Classroom Listening to the Anxious Atheists PART III: APPLYING JEWISH ETHICS AS DIALOGUE Beyond the Flat World Metaphor Dialogue as a Restraint on Wealth The Limits of Dialogue

Editorial Reviews

"Pava brings together a sensitive attention to business realities and Jewish values. His approach to those values is both traditional and modern, uniting deep traditions of Jewish humanism with modern philosophical expressions of a progressive point of view...Also of great value is the book's pedagogical focus. Pava draws on his rich experience as a teacher of business ethics in a religious educational institution to address the special challenges of such teaching. He further uses this context to illustrate the reality and complexities in his overarching theme of ethical dialogue." - Ronald M. Green, Eunice and Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values, Director of the Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College

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