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Citing Alasdair MacIntyre, Goodman acknowledges that all rational enquiry is embodied in a tradition. The author makes explicit the tradition in which he chooses to work. It is a tradition grounded.On justice: an essay in Jewish philosophy. (Lenn Evan Goodman) -- Drawing on Jewish and non-Jewish sources, old and new, develops a theory of community and of nonvindictive yet retributive punishment.Leonard Levin teaches Jewish philosophy at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York. “ On Personal and Public Concerns: Essays in Jewish Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid is a wonderful book for all those interested in a powerful and self-critical analysis of the central problems confronting Jewish existence over the past few decades.
Justice, for the great Greek philosophers of ancient times and even for the great philosophers of today, is a controversial issue and has been up for immense discussion and review. The nature of justice and injustice has been stated and reviewed many times, however.The philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that his retributive theories of justice were based in logic and reason. The retributive stance on punishment states that punishment is necessary, and indeed, justified, on the basis that the act of committing crime deserves punishment.
For Levinas however, I do not think that justice and ethis are contradictory but need to be ethically ordered. It is the way he constructs the relationship between ethics and justice that gives him the tile of the 'JewGreek', drawing his ethics from Jewish philosophy and justice from the Greeks.
