The Modern Crisis of Moral Thought: An Exchange
In our Fall 2017 issue, Abraham Socher examined Aristotle’s akrasia and Maimonides’s teshuvah with an eye toward establishing whether true repentance was possible. His original article can be found here.
The piece prompted Andrew N. Koss of Mosaic magazine to lay out an argument that the mussarists might have found a solution to the “modern crisis of moral thought.” His response, which appeared in our Winter 2018 issue, is here.
Abraham Socher’s rejoinder to Koss, also in the Winter 2018 issue, can be found here.
Comments
You must log in to comment Log In
Suggested Reading
The Jewish Preview of Books—September 2018
A quick look at Jewish books being published this month.
Marginalia
Israeli director Joseph Cedar's new film Footnote was anything but that at the Cannes Film Festival, despite its setting in the Hebrew University Talmud department.
Ivan the Terrible?
A new miniseries from Netflix manages to maintain the tension of the long-decided, if not entirely resolved, case of John Demjanjuk.
The Rise of Hank Greenberg
On Rosh Hashana, Greenberg went to shul, then the ballpark and hit two home runs. "Hank’s Homers are strictly Kosher," said the Detroit Free Press.
daized79
I like that the first link leads to the Mayo Clinic on food poisoning...
asmith
When circumstances demand, we build the online issue at home, at night, while watching a sick kid. Hilarity ensues! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We've corrected it.