Jewish Ethics without Constraints

作者：Emily Filler · 发表于：Journal of Jewish Ethics · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.5325/jjewiethi.10.1-2.0058

This article considers Louis Newman’s important essay “Woodchoppers and Respirators” and Newman’s argument that contemporary Jewish ethicists must be far more cautious in their appeals to classical Jewish texts. In response, this article argues that Newman himself has also neither entirely grappled with the implications of his critique nor recognized its potential as an invitation to a less conventional ethical and intellectual orientation. It suggests that the constraints he identifies ought to be understood as potential virtues of a different approach to the texts, not simply limitations on conventional textual interpretation.