| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 201 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Columbia themes in philosophy
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Columbia themes in philosophy.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Facts and values -- 2. Identity, responsibility, and belonging -- 3. Jewish identity: choosing our Identity -- 4. Jewish Identity: the universal and the particular -- 5. Jewish identity: a purely secular version -- 6. An attempt at pulling together some threads and an Inconclusive conclusion -- 7. Some extended postscripts. |
| Summary |
As a young lecturer in philosophy and the eldest son of a prominent Jewish family, Alan Montefiore faced two very different understandings of his identity: the more traditional view that an identity such as his carries with it, as a matter of given fact, certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view, emphasized by his studies in philosophy, in which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact-whatever those facts may be-to ""judgments of value."" According to this second view, in the end it is up to individuals to determine their own values and obligations.<B. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Identity.
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Jews -- Identity. |
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Identity (Philosophical concept) -- Social aspects.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Social aspects. |
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Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
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Identity (Psychology) -- Social aspects. |
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Self-perception -- Social aspects.
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Self-perception -- Social aspects. |
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Self-perception. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Montefiore, Alan. Philosophical retrospective. New York : Columbia University Press, 2010 (DLC) 2010028018 |
| ISBN |
9780231526791 (electronic book) |
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0231526792 (electronic book) |
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0231153007 |
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9780231153003 |
| Standard No. |
9786613008510 |
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