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Conscience
The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey
Harold M. Schulweis
- 160 pages
- English
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Conscience
The Duty to Obey and the Duty to Disobey
Harold M. Schulweis
Ă propos de ce livre
A Profound and Stirring Call to Action in Our Troubled Worldâfrom One of America's Great Religious Leaders
"Conscience may be understood as the hidden inner compass that guides our lives and must be searched for and recovered repeatedly. At no time more than our own is this need to retrieve the shards of broken conscience more urgent."
âfrom the Introduction
This clarion call to rethink our moral and political behavior examines the idea of conscience and the role conscience plays in our relationships to government, law, ethics, religion, human nature and Godâand to each other. From Abraham to Abu Ghraib, from the dissenting prophets to Darfur, Rabbi Harold Schulweis probes history, the Bible and the works of contemporary thinkers for ideas about both critical disobedience and uncritical obedience. He illuminates the potential for evil and the potential for good that rests within us as individuals and as a society.
By questioning religion's capacityâand willâto break from mindless conformity, Rabbi Schulweis challenges us to counter our current suppressive culture of obedience with the culture of moral compassion, and to fulfill religion's obligation to make room for and carry out courageous moral dissent.
Foire aux questions
Informations
Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Conscience Confronts God
- 2. Human Conscience and Divine Legislation
- 3. Conscience and Covenant: Vertical and Horizontal
- 4. Against Conscience
- 5. Witness to Goodness
- 6. The Conscience of an Anti-Semite
- 7. Cultivating Conscience
- 8. The Bridge across the Rivers of âEither-Orâ
- Notes
- About the Author
- Copyright
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