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Venturing beyond : law and morality in Kabbalistic mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (389 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781435623446
  • 1435623444
  • 9780199277797
  • 0199277796
  • 019153515X
  • 9780191535154
  • 1280905891
  • 9781280905896
  • 9786610905898
  • 6610905894
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Venturing beyond.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/6 22
LOC classification:
  • BM526 .W653 2006eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Ontology, alterity, and the anthropological other -- Othering the other : eschatological effacing of ontic boundaries -- Beyond good and evil : hypernomian transmorality and delimiting the limit -- Suffering, humility, and transgressive piety.
Summary: Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? Venturing Beyond - Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism is an investigation of the relationship of the mystical and moral as it is expressed in the particular tradition of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah. - ;Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical decisions undermined. Ventu.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)215361

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-364) and indexes.

Ontology, alterity, and the anthropological other -- Othering the other : eschatological effacing of ontic boundaries -- Beyond good and evil : hypernomian transmorality and delimiting the limit -- Suffering, humility, and transgressive piety.

Print version record.

Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? Venturing Beyond - Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism is an investigation of the relationship of the mystical and moral as it is expressed in the particular tradition of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah. - ;Are mysticism and morality compatible or at odds with one another? If mystical experience embraces a form of non-dual consciousness, then in such a state of mind, the regulative dichotomy so basic to ethical discretion would seemingly be transcended and the very foundation for ethical decisions undermined. Ventu.

English.