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- Title
JUDAISM AND PHILOSOPHY.
- Authors
Cohen, Richard A.
- Abstract
Philosophy has shown the irrationality of popular or simplistic religion; history has shown its horrors. Feuerbach proposes one way out: to transform theology into anthropology, to realize its highest ideals in the temporal world. Marx proposes another: to destroy religion root and branch. Kant and Levinas take the Feuerbachian route of concrete realization, but by way of the primacy of ethics. Kant, however, remains bound to dualist epistemology, and hence interprets ethics and reasonable religion as respect for law. Levinas, in contrast, acknowledges the transcendence and singularity of the other person, and hence interprets ethics and adult religion, as responsibility to alleviate the other's suffering and to create a just world. In a pluralist world, adult or ethical religion requires the separation of Church and State. The long Jewish tradition of Talmudic learning provides an example of ethical religion in practice.
- Subjects
JUDAISM &; philosophy; PHILOSOPHY &; religion; PHILOSOPHY &; ethics; FEUERBACH, Ludwig, 1804-1872; MARX, Karl, 1818-1883; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; LEVINAS, Emmanuel, 1906-1995
- Publication
Common Ground Journal, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 2, p64
- ISSN
1547-9129
- Publication type
Article