A different angle. For Levinas, the ethical demand comes first from the face of the other person, and he means any other: the stranger, the widow, the orphan. So in a sense he agrees with Williams tha…
There's a rabbinic teaching that while the Temple stood the altar made atonement, and now that it is gone a person's table atones. Usually it's read as being about feeding guests, espec…
As someone who teaches Jewish thought to adults: I've had outsiders explain my tradition better than some of my students could. But I've also heard confident outsiders get the texture entire…
Tal, the shape is this. Against Aristotle's physics. Aristotle denied an infinite body and an actual void, and his proofs relied on his theory of natural place. Crescas attacks those proofs one b…
Partly for, partly against. Buber would refuse both pictures. In I and Thou the "Thou" is not met through its qualities, which would make it an "It", a bundle of features; that…