Beyond the Secular Mind: A Judaic Response to the Problems of Modernity

by Paul Eidelberg

Going beyond Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Paul Eidelberg shows how the cardinal principles of democracy--freedom and equality--can be saved from the degradation of moral relativism by applying Jewish law to these principles. The author attempts to overcome the dichotomy of religion and secularism as well as other contradictions of Western civilization by means of a philosophy of history that uses thoroughly rational concepts...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313266638
• ISBN13: 9780313266638
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"