Hermann Cohen's Ethics

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-04-15318-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Deutsch, Band 14, 264 Seiten, Gewicht: 639 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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.

Originally published as Volume 13 (2005) of The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. For more details on this journal, please click here.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gibbs, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Gibbs, Ph.D. (1986), is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has published widely in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Jewish Philosophy, and is author of Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities (Princeton, 2000).