RT Article
T1 "A Threefold Cord Is Not Quickly Broken": Virtue, Law, and Ethics in the Talmud - Dov Nelkin - Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (Philosophy Documentation Center)
JF Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
VO 23
IS 2
SP 119
OP 153
A1 Nelkin, Dov
LA English
PB Philosophy Documentation Center
YR 2003
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1823808344
AB Jewish ethics has more in common with the burgeoning field of virtue ethics than generally has been acknowledged within the discourse of contemporary religious ethics. This paper describes the virtue ethics present in the Talmud and other rabbinic texts. Missing from many of the arguments in support of virtue ethics is space for other approaches to ethics, including act-evaluation and the codification of at least some ethical decisions into (moral) law. The approach to virtue ethics found in the Talmud overcomes this dichotomy. Therefore, it is advantageous to bring these Talmudic texts concerned with character and virtue into dialogue with contemporary virtue ethics.
DO 10.5840/jsce20032327