Ethics of Globalization and the AIDS Crisis from a Jewish Perspective

This essay explores what Jewish ethics has to say about globalization in relation to the AIDS crisis. Special attention is paid to the consequences in affirming current intellectual trends to transcend traditional limits in both society and thought for rethinking traditional Jewish values. The discu...

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Main Author: Samuelson, Norbert M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2003
In: Zygon
Year: 2003, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-139
Further subjects:B penicillin
B Homosexuality
B bubonic plague
B Sex
B Science
B musar
B Mizos
B Jewish
B Sexual ethics
B Ethics
B Wisdom
B Covenant
B Virtue
B aspirin
B Jewbues
B Joel Edelheit
B shaatnez
B Globalization
B Religion
B AIDS
B Moses Maimonides
B Lemba
B Nationality
B Conversos
B Torah–true
B Distributive Justice
B Solomon Katz
B Family
B Politics
B Karaites
B Martin Buber
B Kishinev pogrom
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Summary:This essay explores what Jewish ethics has to say about globalization in relation to the AIDS crisis. Special attention is paid to the consequences in affirming current intellectual trends to transcend traditional limits in both society and thought for rethinking traditional Jewish values. The discussion proceeds from two presuppositions. The first is that there is an intimate connection between ethics, science, and politics. The second is that the history of Jewish ethics involves three distinct forms that are generally correlated but rarely identical in content and moral judgment. These three forms are law, wisdom or virtue, and covenant. The discussion considers related issues of accidental connections in time between the bubonic plague and Zionism and between AIDS and homosexuality in relation to moral–theological issues related to divine providence and distributive justice.
ISSN:1467-9744
Contains:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/1467-9744.00486