Golden Rule

Analytical Perspectives
Herausgeber: Neusner, Jacob; Chilton, Bruce

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The role of the Golden Rule in various systems of thought, both religious and philosophical, invites study. How the logic of a given system interprets the Golden Rule demands analysis. Objective data deriving from empirical study of nature and society deserve close examination.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 298g
• ISBN-13: 9780761841012
• ISBN-10: 0761841016
• Artikelnr.: 25693395

Autorenporträt

Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. He holds nine honorary degrees and fourteen academic medals and other awards and has published more than a thousand books. Bruce Chilton is the Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Bard College, Executive Director of the Institute of Advanced Theology, and Rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist. His books include: Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography, Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography, Mary Magdalene, Abraham's Curse, and The Cambridge Companion to the Bible.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 William Scott Green, University of Miami: Parsing Reciprocity:
Questions for the Golden Rule
Chapter 2 Robert M. Berchman, Dowling College: The Golden Rule in
Graeco-Roman Religion and Philosophy [1]
Chapter 3 Robert M. Berchman, Dowing College: The Golden Rule in
Graeco-Roman Religion and Philsophy [2]
Chapter 4 Daniel Berthold, Bard College: The Golden Rule in Kant and
Utilitarianism
Chapter 5 Jeffrey Wattles, Kent State University: Philosophical Reflections
on the Golden Rule
Chapter 6 David Sloan Wilson, Binghamton University: The Golden Rules of
Religion
Chapter 7 Harry J. Gensler, S.J., John Carroll University: Gold or Fool's
Gold? Ridding the Golden Rule of Absurd Implications
Chapter 8 Christopher Boehm, University of Southern California: How the
Golden Rule Can Lead to Reproductive Success: A New Selection Basis for
Alexander's "Indirect Reciprocity."
Chapter 9 Stephen G. Post, Case Western Reserve University: The Golden Rule
in its Idealistic Formulation: Benefits for the Moral Agent